JupyterHub Needs Frequent Restart and Requires Cookie Deletion

[brianlee731]

Encountering an issue where JupyterHub needs to be restarted frequently within a short time frame. Additionally, it sometimes requires cookies to be deleted to function properly. These issues are causing disruptions and inconvenience for users.

This might be an issue at a proxy layer, as this is experienced on other things related to mod_auth_openidc. See screenshot below:

This ticket: unity-sds/unity-cs#519
is also caused by the cookies issue. Once this issue is resolved both ticket 519 and 223 can be closed (after testing).
We are now fairly certain this cookies issue is a proxy issue, and not specific to a certain application (e.g. JupyterHub).

[ramesh-maddegoda]

@galenatjpl, I think the root cause for this can be the httpd proxy. As I mentioned during the last meeting, I think in the cases such as JupyterHub and Airflow (where they have their own Cognito auth), it is better to have a httpd proxy route, which is not secured by Cognito (to avoid duplicated authentication). We have to discuss this with Mike.

[ramesh-maddegoda]

Related references:

https://github.com/OpenIDC/mod_auth_openidc/wiki/Cookies
https://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=8721

[jl-0]

We will handle this in unity-sds/unity-cs#519, @brianlee731 can you close this ticket?