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Debugging inconsistent behavior

My wife and a developer co-worker were working on a client Plone site the other day when they ran into an anomaly. Melody was checking whether search results showed an icon to indicate pages which should only be available to registered users (using custom code for the site which is different than what normally happens in Plone, private content not showing up at all in the search results). She wasn’t seeing the lock icon, but the developer saw it on his own local copy of the same site. They then proceeded to look for find differences between the two sites.

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