# Cookies required for anonymous read-only access

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [11 Agosto , 2015 02:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977 "2015-08-11T02:24:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![therealsam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/therealsam/32/32504_2.png) [@therealsam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/therealsam)
#### Post date: [11 Agosto , 2015 02:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977/1 "2015-08-11T02:24:51Z")

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This bug has returned.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-read-only-anonymous-browsing/17362](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-read-only-anonymous-browsing/17362)

Yes Discourse, this is similar to the post about the same bug when I posted it a year ago. It’s back.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [11 Agosto , 2015 02:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977/2 "2015-08-11T02:42:03Z")

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Thanks, should be fixed with

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f6c6f6e7a1ea7fb2946aaea0b3ee6246a30fe4c7](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f6c6f6e7a1ea7fb2946aaea0b3ee6246a30fe4c7)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [11 Agosto , 2015 02:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977/3 "2015-08-11T02:42:05Z")

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11 Agosto , 2015 03:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977/4 "2015-08-11T03:00:31Z")

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Why did we regress here again?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [11 Agosto , 2015 03:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977/5 "2015-08-11T03:01:13Z")

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My guess is that we refucktored something 🙂

We still need a robust smoke test to ensure this can not happen.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11 Agosto , 2015 03:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977/6 "2015-08-11T03:46:14Z")

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Basically anon should work even with cookies disabled, that is the test.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [11 Agosto , 2015 04:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookies-required-for-anonymous-read-only-access/31977/7 "2015-08-11T04:03:54Z")

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We need to stub localStorage to dish out exceptions in phantom to simulate this