Problems with the polls?
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Topic: Problems with the polls?
Posted By: NIIcK
Subject: Problems with the polls?
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 1:22am
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Hi, My name is Nick Dragomir. I have recently installed the free version of Web Wiz. I have noticed that if I create a poll and vote in it, it does not allow me to vote agen in the same session but if i click logout then login again, the Cast your vote is there again allowing me to vote as many times as I want. Please tell me what to do about this. Thank you, ------------- Nick Dragomir |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 4:18am
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Unless you are deleting your cookies this should not happen and also
the last posters ID is checked which perevents the p-erson for voting
again even if they delete cookies unless someone else votes first.
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Posted By: NIIcK
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 5:57am
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Thank you. I have discovered where the error was. The CDate was giving an error and I disable it. Then I re-enable it and fixed the error using Documentation and FAQ's\common_errors.htm#FAQ7 Once again thank you for your quick answer. ------------- Nick Dragomir |
Posted By: NIIcK
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 7:02am
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It still doesn't work. I have logged on as one username and voted, then logged off, then I've logged on with another username, voted then logged off the second username and logged on again with the first username and it allowed me to vote again. As long as I keep the same session it doesn't mather if I log on, then off. It won't allow me to vote but as sson as I change the username, vote then swich back to the first one ... the vote is possible again. Please tell me what to do.
Thank you,
------------- Nick Dragomir |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 7:17am
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Thats becuase by logging in on the same machine as another user you are
distroying the cookie from the first login and also by voting again you
are also reseting the last voted ID. In practise people will be using different computers and not immediatly voting in the same poll so it shouldn't be to much of a problem. Also if you login as the first user, vote, logout, login as the secound user but not vote, then go back to the first login it shouldn't happen. This is not a sesison problem more a problem of you over writting data using the same machine and voting in the same poll as different users. If you want more security on this there is a mod in the mods section that stores the user ID of every user that votes in teh database, this is bad on performance as it stores much more data in the database, but if you are that worried about it download and install that mod. ------------- 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 |