Login Failing

[jswrenn]

When I try to sign on with my @brown.edu account, the request to http://examplar.cs.brown.edu/getAccessToken fails with error code 404. This only occurs with my @brown.edu account (which I've been using during the development process); I can login fine with other accounts. The problem persists across computers. I also seem to be the only user affected by this, as of now.

I seem to be getting stuck in this branch:

examplar/src/server.js

Lines 245 to 248 in eb59d73

	if(u === null) {
	noAuth();
	return null;
	}

@jpolitz do you have any idea what's going on here?

[jpolitz]

That should happen when the cookie coming from the browser doesn't represent a user that's stored in the database; that is, no key for the user id that maps to a refresh token.

One thing to check is if somehow a null token is in the database for the user id. I haven't seen that happen in CPO, but it's conceivably another way for null to show up here. Especially since it's a single account, maybe there's something with Brown or your account settings making the connection not work.

There's a script called src/scripts/dump-keys.js; you could lightly modify that and probably get the values printed out for keys, and figure out which one is for your failing user id, and see if it's a weird value (or if it's set at all).

Can you reproduce this on localhost, or just with the deployed examplar?

[jswrenn]

(Un?)fortunately, the problem seems to have spontaneously resolved itself today.