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Showing confusing error message when having an expired login session

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python
Domain
authentication

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with an expired login session: inspect the runs list, trigger a run, and load a specific run. The fix is complete when expired sessions produce a clear authentication message instead of the generic load failure or HTTP 500 error.

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Description

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Reported by @jesup

The list of runs shows the following message:

Could not load runs. Try again shortly.

And triggering a run or loading a specific run shows an HTTP 500 error.

Dominant language
Python
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