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Authored by epriestley on Jun 4 2015, 6:49 PM.
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Summary

Fixes T8326. This removes calls to PhabricatorStartup from places that daemons may access.

This salt doesn't need to be global; it's embedded in the token we return. It's fine if we use a different salt every time. In practice, we always use the same viewer, so this change causes little or no behavioral change.

Ref T8424. For Spaces, I need a per-request cache for all spaces, because they have unusual access patterns and require repeated access, in some cases by multiple viewers.

We don't currently have a per-request in-process cache that we, e.g., clear in the daemons.

We do have a weak/theoretical/forward-looking attempt at this in PhabricatorStartup::getGlobal() but I'm going to throw that away (it's kind of junky, partly because of T8326) and replace it with a more formal mechanism.

Test Plan
  • Submitted some forms.
  • Grepped for csrf.salt.
  • Viewed page source, saw nice CSRF tokens with salt.
  • All the salts are still the same on every page I checked, but it doesn't matter if this isn't true everywhere.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 4 2015, 8:27 PM
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