If this problem has been reported before, I don't remember it. Nothing
about our Trac installation has changed recently that I'm aware of. In case
it helps, I just updated to Trac 1.0.11.
It's unclear if the problem would be our problem and or an issue with Trac
but for what it's worth, our bug
It seems that the issue is somehow related to empty trac_session cookie which
somehow has got set. Here is the curl request which can be used to obtain the
403 response:
curl -I -H 'Cookie: trac_session=' https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2659
Clearing the cookies solved the problem, so the
Trying to browse any ticket on code.djangoproject.com yields 403 Forbidden,
with a message “TICKET_VIEW privileges are required to perform this operation.
You don't have the required permissions.”. An attempt to login via
https://code.djangoproject.com/login results in 502. It has been broken th
