Mr. Roboto Or How A Tester Becomes A Robot

Update: If you are using Sitecore 8.x you do not need the hot fix rather use this fix instead. Disable Robot Detection on a Content Management Server

Dennis Augustine and I were working with a client that all the sudden started to experience loss of login status.  We followed all the usual timeout checks, compared code, compared configurations, tried to find a solid way to reproduce.  We had two test users and everyone was sharing them. With all the testing happening, it turns out that Sitecore detected them as a robot. 

Finally Ken Gray discovered this gem: Sitecore Dialog Timeout Issue

Here are the instructions for deploying the Login Timeout Fix:

1. Modify the Website\web.config by adding following module to the ‘system.webServer’ section (in case site is running on the Integrated Mode on IIS7
   
   <- default setting  ; and ‘httpModules’ section in case Classic mode is used) :
   <add type="Sitecore.Web.HttpModule,Sitecore.Kernel" name="SitecoreHttpModuleExtensions" />
   <add type="Sitecore.Support.FixHttpSessionTimeout.CausedByRobotDetection,Sitecore.Support.414299" name="RevertingAnalyticsBotSessionDuration" />
2. Add the Sitecore.Support.414299 into the Website\bin folder.

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