Session Tracking Issues
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Topic: Session Tracking Issues
Posted By: coffeeshopper
Subject: Session Tracking Issues
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 3:07am
I have the WWF inside a frame of my web application. There is a frame on the left side of the page that contains two links to the forum.
Link #1) goes to the forum front page
Link #2) goes to a specific section of the forum
Here are the steps to reproduce the issue:
1) User clicks on link #1
2) User logs in
3) User clicks on link #2
Behavior: After clicking on link #2, the user is taken to the "Access Denied" error page with a logon screen.
Probable cause: I see that once the user logs on via Link #1, there are session IDs appended to all of the links. When the user clicks on link #2, they are taken directly to that forum but redirected because of the lack of tracking id.
What are some ways that I can resolve this?
Please note that I am using MS Access and setup_options_inc.asp has the following line:
Const blnDatabaseHeldSessions = True
Thank you in advance for any assistance that can be provided.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 10:51am
If you are seeing a session tracking code appended to the end of the URL then it means that sessions are not working for your website.
Often using frames will prevent sessions from working, you may also want to edit in notepad the file includes/setup_options_inc.asp and change the way cookies are saved for yoru website, which may also help.
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Posted By: coffeeshopper
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 3:12pm
The sessions are working just fine.
The issue appears to be IE/Frames/WWF based. This issue is 100% reproducible for me using IE. This issue is not occurring in Firefox, Opera, or Chrome.
I can submit a ticket (I have a support contract) with login details if you like.
Just tried the following in IE. When I open the WWF frame in a new tab
(right click on Link #1, open in a new tab), session ID's are not being
appended.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 4:54pm
IE does have problems setting cookies when using frames.
This is a problem with IE so the only solution would be to not use frames, which are not any good for search engines anyway. Unfortunately there is nothing that cane be done about IE's frames issues, unless Microsoft update IE, but then you still have problems with all those that don't update their browsers.
If you want to integrate the forum into your own websites template then have a look instead at editing the header.asp and footer.asp files in the includes folder.
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Posted By: coffeeshopper
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 6:34pm
Got it. Thanks for the response.
I was able to recode some dynamically generated left navigation links to accommodate IE users.
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