Suggestion to jrsteele (administrator)

jsteele
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Anonymous wrote:Sure, it's a slow day at work.

Widows XP Professional 2002
Internet Explorer 6.0

cookies deleted

I get my little logged in icon on all pages except forums (i.e. I appear to be logged in when I view events, topdoctors, mailing lists as well as on the homepage).


clarabow:

I may have found the problem. As I mentioned, passwords are encrypted in such a way that it is impossible to unencrypt them. I think that when your password is encrypted, the result has a space as the last character. This is causing a problem in creating the cookie needed to get logged into the forums. I'm not completely sure about this, but its my best guess. To test my theory, could you please change your password and then logout, clear cookies, login and then try the forums.

Thanks!

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Anonymous
This morning when I went to the General Discussion forum it only showed one topic. It looks like when one page of topics fills up, it rolls over to a complete new page (i.e., appending new page to the front, not the rear). Since I'd been here before, I knew there were more topics so I clicked on page two, but other newer users might not realize to look further. Is there away to change the setup so that the first page is always a full page of topics?
jsteele
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Anonymous wrote:This morning when I went to the General Discussion forum it only showed one topic. It looks like when one page of topics fills up, it rolls over to a complete new page (i.e., appending new page to the front, not the rear). Since I'd been here before, I knew there were more topics so I clicked on page two, but other newer users might not realize to look further. Is there away to change the setup so that the first page is always a full page of topics?


This is behaving the same way for me. Obviously, that's not how we want it to work. I noticed a similar problem in the Website Feedback forum yesterday when it said there were 7 topics, but only one appeared. That wasn't a case of the topics being paginated as in the case of General Discussion. I don't know what is causing this, but I'll look into it and find a solution.


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Anonymous
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sure, it's a slow day at work.

Widows XP Professional 2002
Internet Explorer 6.0

cookies deleted

I get my little logged in icon on all pages except forums (i.e. I appear to be logged in when I view events, topdoctors, mailing lists as well as on the homepage).


clarabow:

I may have found the problem. As I mentioned, passwords are encrypted in such a way that it is impossible to unencrypt them. I think that when your password is encrypted, the result has a space as the last character. This is causing a problem in creating the cookie needed to get logged into the forums. I'm not completely sure about this, but its my best guess. To test my theory, could you please change your password and then logout, clear cookies, login and then try the forums.

Thanks!


Sorry for being the Difficult Child. Tried your fix, still a no-go. I have not yet seen if I have the same issue at home, I have only checked forums at work. Why don't I try to hop on-line from home tonight and then we'll know if it is an at-work firewall issue??
jsteele
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Clarabow wrote:
Sorry for being the Difficult Child. Tried your fix, still a no-go. I have not yet seen if I have the same issue at home, I have only checked forums at work. Why don't I try to hop on-line from home tonight and then we'll know if it is an at-work firewall issue??


Yes, trying from home was actually going to be my next suggestion. Sorry for the continued difficulty.



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hellojello
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i think the site works fine as well. i just have to get used to looking at the top for the forums tab, but can't complain really.
Anonymous
jsteele wrote:
Clarabow wrote:
Sorry for being the Difficult Child. Tried your fix, still a no-go. I have not yet seen if I have the same issue at home, I have only checked forums at work. Why don't I try to hop on-line from home tonight and then we'll know if it is an at-work firewall issue??


Yes, trying from home was actually going to be my next suggestion. Sorry for the continued difficulty.




Still no luck from home (and cookies are enabled).
jsteele
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Clarbow wrote:
Still no luck from home (and cookies are enabled).


I'll look into this further later this afternoon. Now I'm feeling challenged.



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jsteele
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Clarabow wrote:
Still no luck from home (and cookies are enabled).


Clarabow:

I may have found the problem that was preventing you from logging in. Can you try again?



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clarabow
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TaDa!
jsteele
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clarabow wrote:TaDa!


Excellent. One problem down, a few more to go...

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clarabow
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Hi Jeff -- loving the site. I seem to be experiencing a new wrinkle though. I want to make a post anonymously, but I can't seem to do so, even though I have logged out via the home page. i.e., the exact opposite of my original problem!! Am I cursed or what?
jsteele
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clarabow wrote:Hi Jeff -- loving the site. I seem to be experiencing a new wrinkle though. I want to make a post anonymously, but I can't seem to do so, even though I have logged out via the home page. i.e., the exact opposite of my original problem!! Am I cursed or what?


When you login on the home page, you get a cookie that is used to authenticate you for the forums. When you log out from the home page, that cookie is not removed. It expires on its own. I believe it takes 10 minutes to expire.

The safest way to post anonymously after you have been logged in is to open another browser. For instance, use IE for your normal use, but switch to Firefox for anonymous use. Or, just wait 10 minutes.



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Anonymous
gracias,
clara
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