Users getting logged off on post and back button
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Topic: Users getting logged off on post and back button
Posted By: electricscooter
Subject: Users getting logged off on post and back button
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 1:23am
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I am using the newest version in demo mode, I am finding users are getting logged off if they post a reply or topic, and it also happens if you use the back button, i tried it here as far as the back button goes and I was logged off on this site too.
Running on IIS and ASP of course and using IE 6 for browser.
Any ideas what is up ?
I believe the forum config as for cookies and such are at the defaults with no mods to those settings.
Thanks
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 2:18pm
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Never heard of anyone ever being logged of by hitting the back button, are you sure your browser isn't caching the page? Try doing a refresh.
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Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 2:59pm
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I personally suggest not use the back button when in a application like that, use the built-in navigation.............. but I've never had any issues like that with the forum, unless it was our HOST, the OLD host, and their session resets.......
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Posted By: StarDust
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 4:17pm
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This sounds to me an application pool refresh issue at the server end. I had similar experience with a bad host.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 4:56pm
My most used button in my browser is probally the back button, so there should be no problem with using it within Web Wiz Forums. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
billd3 wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 4:57pm
Just clicked back a couple of times to get back to this page, and am still logged in  Would be pretty lousy if the back button logged you out so easily. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 5:25pm
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Just a habit - I work a lot with web forms and web applications, and the back-button can get you into trouble with those, post data, etc. etc. It works fine in the forums here and always has, but I simply prefer the navigation at hand. Now, if I am browsing the "most recent posts", and view one, then just want to get back to that active topics list, I hit back. No problems. then it's easier as I go right back to the list of active topics and nothing is refreshed. That's where I will use the backbutton. This forum, well, since I've started poking around back in v7, has never caused me such issues. I agree with the session reset diagnosis, or a local issue on the PC, as there's sure no problem with the forum itself....... ------------- BillD http://theamcpages.com http://theamcforum.com |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 5:40pm
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It could be a cookie issue with the site setting cookies also, if you see an SID= with a long string after it, it means that cookies are not being set correctly.
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Posted By: Andreas.E
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 9:04am
I have use Web Wiz Forums for a long time. 3 weeks ago i change my web-host and now i have 70-80% of my 600 users experience the same issue with not staying logged in. It seams that the cookie is not sett correclty, as i can se the SID string. Is this a local problem in the browser, or is it on the server? Web Wiz Forum version: Latest 9.50 Plattform: MS SQL 2005 Server |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 9:27am
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Sounds like a server issue with the cookie path not correctly being set. Edit in notepad the file includes/setup_options_inc.asp and change the way the cookies are set to use the website root:- strCookiePath = "/" ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Andreas.E
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 9:41am
Thanks... will try it out! 
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Posted By: Andreas.E
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 10:51am
Great Bruce... it solved the problem! Thanks alot  |