1098658 - site (webmaker.org) is blank if cookies are blocked

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Webmaker Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Gavin Cannizzaro]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141106120505

Steps to reproduce:

Go to webmaker.org in a browser that refuses it cookies.

In Firefox, you can do this by going to Tools > Options > Privacy and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites" before loading the page.  This option exists to protect people from, e.g. tracking by ad networks, and it is offered by all major browsers.


Actual results:

A blank page.


Expected results:

The content comprising webmaker.org.

Comment 1

[André Jaenisch]

Attachment: WebMaker.org with blocked Cookies

Comment 2

[André Jaenisch]

Attachment: Console dump 1/3

Comment 3

[André Jaenisch]

Attachment: 2/3 Console dump

Comment 4

[André Jaenisch]

Attachment: Console dump 3/3

Comment 5

[André Jaenisch]

To get a better idea of what is happening, I attached some screenshots.

The page is not blank per se, but it looks like a template failed to parse to me.

Comment 6

[Ali Al Dallal [:alicoding]]

I've tested this and it seems to be working fine. Please file a bug here if it still doesn't work for you http://github.com/mozilla/webmaker.org