maqetta/maqetta — Issue #1503: Single user - don't redirect to welcome page after session timeout
Author: JonFerraiolo
Created: 2012-01-09 02:06:19+00:00
State: open
Labels: Priority High, Server

This one has been bothering me for a long time, and I've been debating about how bad this is, but I have concluded we need to fix before shipping Preview 4 because we still have tons of users who download the ZIP and run the single-user version of the application.

If you download a ZIP, run maqetta.local.mac.command or maqetta.local.win.bat, launch the Maqetta app, and then don't do anything for awhile, the server times out, and the next time you try to do something, you get redirected to the welcome page. But for single-user mode, we should never go to the welcome page. The user should somehow or other be able to merrily continue to use the Maqetta application without having to log back in (since there is no login with single user). I'm not sure exactly how to accomplish this in the best manner - maybe add a conditional to the redirect logic that determines whether the server was launched in single-user mode, and if so, then redirect to /maqetta rather than /maqetta/welcome?