Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : Cookie issues https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:25:00 +0000 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:53:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=22913 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[Cookie issues : While I can&#039;t easily...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-issues_topic22913_post121407.html#121407 Author: User123
Subject: 22913
Posted: 21 March 2007 at 1:53pm

While I can't easily post a "mod" to pass on the changes I made (cookies are referenced from many different places), the gist was to create centralized cookie functions:

functions/functions_cookies.asp
<%
dim cookiePath
cookiePath = left(request.servervariables("URL"),instrrev(request.servervariables("URL"),"/"))

'COOKIE MOD - rewritten cookie management
function getCookie(key)
    getCookie = Request.Cookies(strCookieName&"_MAIN")(key)
end function

sub setCookie(key,val)
    Response.Cookies(strCookieName&"_MAIN")(key) = val
    Response.Cookies(strCookieName&"_MAIN").Path = cookiePath
    Response.Cookies(strCookieName&"_MAIN").Expires = DateAdd("yyyy", 1, Now())
end sub

sub clearCookie()
    Response.Cookies(strCookieName&"_MAIN") = ""
end sub

function getUserCookie(key)
    getUserCookie = Request.Cookies(strCookieName&"_USER")(key)
end function

sub setUserCookie(key,val,keep)
    Response.Cookies(strCookieName&"_USER")(key) = val
    Response.Cookies(strCookieName&"_USER").Path = cookiePath
    if keep then
        Response.Cookies(strCookieName&"_USER").Expires = DateAdd("yyyy", 1, Now())
    end if
end sub

sub clearUserCookie()
    Response.Cookies(strCookieName&"_USER")=""
end sub
%>


I then changed literally every reference to Request.Cookies and Response.Cookies to call the appropriate function above.  This is still fairly quick and dirty but, in my case, it solved the necessary path issue for the forums (which are in a subfolder and were sometimes getting stomped on by the portal software), as well as keeping persistent information in a separate cookie.

HTH


Edited by User123 - 21 March 2007 at 2:01pm]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:53:07 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-issues_topic22913_post121407.html#121407 <![CDATA[Cookie issues : Thanks for the suggestion. Alas...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-issues_topic22913_post121406.html#121406 Author: User123
Subject: 22913
Posted: 21 March 2007 at 1:43pm

Thanks for the suggestion.  Alas it turned out to be combination of factors.  I made changes to the way WebWiz handles cookies and now all the users are happy.]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:43:26 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-issues_topic22913_post121406.html#121406 <![CDATA[Cookie issues : Hi user123, I use FF 1.5 and...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-issues_topic22913_post121368.html#121368 Author: mceb
Subject: 22913
Posted: 20 March 2007 at 12:04am

Hi user123, I use FF 1.5 and just put up a WW forum and noticed similar issue with having to relogin often.   I found this post that states it may be sensitive to different locations and logging user out for security.    I'm going to try not logging in from work to see if issue goes away.

http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=22399&KW=timeout


Edited by mceb - 20 March 2007 at 12:07am]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:04:41 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-issues_topic22913_post121368.html#121368 <![CDATA[Cookie issues : Virtually all of our forum users...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-issues_topic22913_post121310.html#121310 Author: User123
Subject: 22913
Posted: 17 March 2007 at 12:52am

Virtually all of our forum users are complaining of having to log in constantly since the conversion to WebWiz.  Several of us have cleared our cookies, tried different browsers and browser versions and, while the behavior is erratic, it seems to happen everywhere.

I installed a cookie watcher extension in FF2.0 and so far it seems that the "WWF" cookie gets set but often it gets "cleared" (it just disappears sometimes between page loads).  After I see it go away in the cookie watcher, if I close the browser and then reload and go back to the forums I have to log in again.

Any others experiencing similar problems?  Any idea on what is causing this and how to resolve it?

There have been no server side changes to IIS for a long time and persistent cookies worked in the previous forums (Snitz) as well as on many other web sites on the same server.  I'm not saying it can't be a server issue, but it's not the first place I'm looking.

The only anomaly I have found so far (which I don't think has anything to do with the problem) is in "search_results_topics.asp".  Around line 420 is the following:
'Set the booleon variable if this is a new post since the users last visit and has not been read
If (CDate(dtmLastVisitDate) < dtmLastEntryDate) AND (Request.Cookies("RT")("TID" & lngTopicID) = "") Then blnNewPost = True Else blnNewPost = False

I can find nowhere that this cookie is referenced and it looks odd since every other cookie set/retrieve uses "strCookieName" in place of the "RT".  By default strCookieName = "WWF".

Any help is appreciated as it's driving us nuts Smile

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