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RadioActiveLamb 
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 Topic: Forum "forgets" frequently
Posted: 26 July 2007 at 4:39pm |
I suspect that this is a cookie problem, but I don't know where to look. The server is IIS6. I test primarily with IE7 on the client.
The problem is that the forum shows new messages and the "active topics" lists all those messages. After a very short period of time, all topics are marked as "read" and no-longer appear in the active topics list. V8 never did this. Also, the forum doesn't always remember my login. I'm forced to log-in almost every time I visit the site, but not always.
If this is a cookie problem, where should I be looking? The date/time are correct on the server and client.
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Posted: 26 July 2007 at 5:06pm |
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Do you have a long SID=xxxxxx displayed in your address bar throughout the forum?
If so this is a cookie problem, and it could be that the forum is unable to automatically create the cookie path. If this is the case edit in notepad the file includes/setup_options.asp and manually set the correct cookie path for your forum.
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Posted: 26 July 2007 at 5:13pm |
No, this is the typical suffix format on the URL: "/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2791"
I've never seen the SID= portion.
Interestingly, I had to log-in to this forum again to post this reply. This indicates a client problem, but what I don't understand is that this happens on three different PCs and wasn't a problem with earlier versions of the forum.
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Posted: 26 July 2007 at 5:18pm |
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If you use IE cookies are always a problem.
Mocrosoft say on their own sites the way to fix the cookie index is to first delete all cached internet files, then delete all stored cookies. This resets IE's cookie index.
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Posted: 26 July 2007 at 5:24pm |
great... I haven't had to do that since IE6.
Thanks for the info, I'll give it a shot.
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Posted: 26 July 2007 at 5:45pm |
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grrr... I hate deleting cookies. Another excuse to use Firefox?
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Posted: 26 July 2007 at 5:55pm |
It's a one-time thing, apparently. Maybe subtle differences in the cookie between v8 and v9.
This seems to have fixed the problem. One thing I noticed though is the quick-login doesn't store a cookie on the client. In the past, the quick-login caused the computer to remember me across sessions. Now, it forgets after I close the browser. Is there a setting I can change on the forum to force the quick login to save a cookie?
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Posted: 26 July 2007 at 6:04pm |
 dfrancis wrote:
grrr... I hate deleting cookies. Another excuse to use Firefox? |
Firefox isn't that much better... you always get that annoying " do you want to restore or continue your previous session" prompt.
Maybe Safari? the Safari 3 Public Beta version is already out and its available on windows machines 
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