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Topic: ver. 7.6 will not allow me to log out.

Posted By: redsavior
Subject: ver. 7.6 will not allow me to log out.
Date Posted: 10 December 2003 at 8:44am

Hey,

I'm getting "false" log offs now. The login problem I had with 7.01 is fixed, but now I cannot log a user off. Here's the test URL: http://www.tastyfresh.com/forum-new/default.asp - http://www.tastyfresh.com/forum-new/default.asp

any ideas? Feel free to create an account and test it.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 10 December 2003 at 9:41am

If you have upgraded from a previous version make sure you have replaced all the files.

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Posted By: redsavior
Date Posted: 10 December 2003 at 9:57am

nevermind. Actually, I forgot...I did have to modify some files to include:

Response.Cookies.Item( strCookieName ).Path = "/"
Response.Cookies.Item( strCookieName ).Domain = Request.ServerVariables( "HTTP_HOST" )

so login user has this:

login_user.asp wrote:

   'Write a cookie with the User ID number so the user logged in throughout the forum
   'Write the cookie with the name Forum containing the value UserID number
   Response.Cookies(strCookieName)("UID") = strUserCode
   Response.Cookies.Item( strCookieName ).Path = "/"
   Response.Cookies.Item( strCookieName ).Domain = Request.ServerVariables( "HTTP_HOST" )
   If CBool(Request.Form("ActiveUsers")) = False Then

and logout_user says:

log_off_user.asp wrote:

'Clear the forum cookie on the users system so the user is no longer logged in
Response.Cookies(strCookieName) = ""
Response.Cookies.Item( strCookieName ).Path = "/"
Response.Cookies.Item( strCookieName ).Domain = Request.ServerVariables( "HTTP_HOST" )
Response.Cookies(strCookieName)("UID") = strLoggedInUsername & "LOGGED-OFF"
Response.Cookies("TS") = ""
Response.Cookies("LPM") = ""
Session("ViRead") = ""

Without this modification, the boards won't work on my server. I thought this was a bug that was going to be fixed back in 7.5.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 8:36am

This is not a bug that needs to be fixed in the forum, as this may work for you on your site, but in tests it was found that your solution actually stops cookies from working on the majourity of sites and stops cookies from working in Mozilla.

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Posted By: redsavior
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 9:14am

well, alrighty then

Glad you checked that out. Guess my ISP is kinda screwy. At least on my ISP Mozilla doesn't seem to have a problem. Was there a particular platform or version of Mozilla? I may have another issue I don't know about, but I do know that I have both mac and linux users who use mozilla and can access the site just fine.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 11:45am

I found problems with Mozilla Firebird 0.7 and some others reported problems on this site with it when I tried your suggestion, I also had problems on my local XP pro machine when testing in IE, using virtual directories for the forum.

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