Lighthouse Timeout troubles

If you’re following our twitter stream or been trying to use Lighthouse this afternoon, you will have noticed the slowness. It’s been tracked down to a firewall issue on the slices and elevated to an EY support issue. Basically, the slices can’t access the outside world. This is fine for most functions, but breaks down on a few of them. The major one is OpenID. I was astonished to find that it has no concept of timeouts, so requests to openid servers were timing out after several minutes. Yikes. I’ve fixed the code and posted a patch for the ruby-openid folks.

Keep an eye on this post or Twitter for when the firewall issue is solved. And until then, please refrain from using OpenID to log in. Thanks.

Update: And we’re back. The firewalls are syncing up properly now.