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Topic: Trouble with logging in.

Posted By: robplatt
Subject: Trouble with logging in.
Date Posted: 23 September 2003 at 11:27am

I have a windows 2000 box here, cookies and javascript enabled. but when my user goes to log into the forum, it takes them fromthe login page to the forum index (as if they logged in successfully) but they're not logged in.

This person is unable to login at all. No errors.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 September 2003 at 11:49am

There are 100's of posts about this on teh forum.

Do a search for login and cookies.

This will be a cookie problem, if you are using any form of URL masking, IP masking, frames, domain forwarding, etc. then your browser will not be able to read back in cookies.

This is a security feature of web browsers to prevent other sites from reading in cookies. If you use any of the mentioned ways to connect to your site then your browser won't see that the cookies are set by your site and so can not read them back in.

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Posted By: robplatt
Date Posted: 24 September 2003 at 9:06am

I didn't think it would be a cookie problem, but ill check again.

(the site works fine for everyone else. just this one user)

Posted By: robplatt
Date Posted: 24 September 2003 at 9:17am

Ok, I allowed all cookies. added the site to the allow cookie list, and it still wont let her log in.

im not using frames or anything of that such. I can log in just fine, even with her account from this computer. So i know its not your code. Im just looking for some more suggestions to try.

yes she has java enabled.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 24 September 2003 at 9:32am

You didn't make it clear it was only one user.

Well if thats the case my bet is she is using IE, which suffers from a bug where by the cookie index becomes corrupted.

The solution to this is first delete all cahed intetnet files for IE and then delete all cookies, in this order. This will reset IE's cookie index.

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Posted By: robplatt
Date Posted: 24 September 2003 at 9:49am

I'll give it a try. Thanks for the quick reply.

Posted By: robplatt
Date Posted: 24 September 2003 at 9:54am

No go. I deleted the files then the cookies in that order. Any other suggestions? It's IE 6.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 24 September 2003 at 12:00pm

Use Mozilla Firebird, it's much better and faster then IE and handles pretty much the same way. http://texturizer.net/firebird/ - http://texturizer.net/firebird/

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