Me: stale 2FA token leads to too many API requests

[lsinger]

Steps to reproduce

1. have a stale 2FA token
2. go to http://calypso.localhost:3000/me
3. see the "please enter the verification code" modal
4. open the developer console

What I expected

When we make an API request that fails because of a stale 2FA token, we wait with future requests until we have a valid token again.

What happened instead

We keep making requests for profile-links, apparently in no way throttled. This is probably not very nice to the API, and possibly also the user's bandwidth in low-bandwidth contexts.

GIF:

[lancewillett]

Good catch for both performance and UX.

[rachelmcr]

Bug scrub: 31Oct2016

I retested this issue by deleting the twostep_auth cookie from my browser. I can reproduce the behavior described above, which also seems related to this issue with the GET /me/settings endpoint returning a 401 error when you have a stale 2FA token: #202

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[lsinger]

This isn't happening for me anymore:

Closing.