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Those users don’t get past our single sign on app in the first place. The “ticket granting ticket” used to give out sessions in individual apps expires after a few seconds, presumably to discourage various kinds of attacks.

Not every app is forced to support terrible connections. We definitely had issues with hung operations until we had a timeout, though there was some disagreement about failing “fast” (10 seconds is “fast”???) vs hanging inexplicably for much longer, but not forever, periods of time.

Edit: when REST calls occasionally failed after 10 seconds, rather than hanging the UI, the support calls stopped. 2 or 3 people a day had to hit submit a second time. They got over it, as opposed to reloading the app/page. This was the most cost effective way for us to handle this.




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