Cookie question

The login is not kept in a cookie, what you are seeing is an autologin cookie which can sometimes contain parts of the username.

The 32 bit session tracking code is stored in another cookie, this is used to track users around the forum but only lasts for a 20 minute period.

If you explain what it is that you are trying to achieve maybe able to help.

The 'WWF9sID=SID' cookie contains the forums own 32 bit session tracking code. It uses it's own session tracking rather than the ASP one as this allows it to be more secure and flexible and also allows Web Wiz Forums to be used with load balanced servers and server farms as you can switch the session to be stored in the database rather than the servers memory.

Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 13 May 2008 at 4:00pm

It sounds like you would be better of using the built in HTTP XML API.

This is a very powerful API which can be used to talk directly to web wiz forums and can return full details on members like their login code which you can then place into a cookie to auto-login the user to Web Wiz Forums, as well as other details which you can use in your custom quires including the Aurthor_ID which is what is used in Web Wiz Forums own SQL when updating details of a member.

For a full list of methods and actions point your browser as the HttpAPI.asp file in the root of your forum.

The API can be used for many things including adding new members, updating passwords, and many other things. I believe there is around 20 different actions that can be performed with the API at the present time.

Probably best to use the API as this way you can query Web Wiz Forums and get the Author_ID for a member which never changes.