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| #41896 | 11/17/2016 12:10:34 pm | ||
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BrianV Joined: 02/08/2016 Posts: 125 Inactive 
| Hi Steve, If you visit 'brokenbat.org', cookies are set with 'brokenbat.org' as the domain. If you visit 'brokenbat.org', you get cookies with the 'brokenbat.org' domain. This means that as a user, I have different sessions based on the domain. That is, I can be logged in at 'http://brokenbat.org' and logged out at 'http://brokenbat.org'. This gets annoying when you follow links in the forum which point to the opposite domain form the one you logged in at, and you are suddenly logged out again. If you made both domains set the cookie domain as 'brokenbat.org', both addressess (www- and non-www) would share the same session. That is, a login at brokenbat.org would also log you in at brokenbat.org, and vice versa. Alternatively, a perhaps a better solution may be to redirect the www- version of your site to the non-www version (or vice-versa) in .htaccess (assuming you are running Apache). Finally, it would be nice if you would add a 'Remember me' option to the login dialogue that would set the cookie expiry somewhere in the far future, like a year ahead. Currently the cookie is set to expire at the end of the session. This leaves me logging in 5-6 times per day. It would be nice to not have to log in every time I open my browser to check BB! |
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| #41898 | 11/17/2016 1:05:30 pm | ||
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newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive
| Mine remembers me, I think that may be browser or device specific (I'm running Firefox on a Windows 10 desktop). Might want to check if you are allowing cookies from brokenbat. The other part is something I hope Steve can do something about someday as it is a problem that has been around as long as I have. | ||
| #41900 | 11/17/2016 1:41:53 pm | ||
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BrianV Joined: 02/08/2016 Posts: 125 Inactive
| @Newtman - the browser will remember the username and password when you load the login page. I'm just suggesting that you shouldn't have to go to the login page at all - you should just be 'logged in' until you choose to log out. | ||
| #41929 | 11/18/2016 7:21:17 am | ||
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Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1 
| That explains why sometimes links in the forums pop open a window with me logged out. | ||
| #41965 | 11/18/2016 11:30:26 pm | ||
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admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator 
| Okay...I'll look into this. Thanks, Steve |
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| #42367 | 11/29/2016 10:53:34 pm | ||
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admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator
| Okay...I think this might be fixed now. example: normal link: Sherman Galli www link: Sherman Galli Steve Updated Tuesday, November 29 2016 @ 11:12:11 pm PST |
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| #42368 | 11/29/2016 11:15:45 pm | ||
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AssumedPseudonym Joined: 10/26/2016 Posts: 1130 Deerfield Beach Rats V.7 
| Seems to be working, yep. Does for me, at least. | ||
| #42369 | 11/29/2016 11:26:29 pm | ||
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admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator
| Yeah, I'm just a little worried that the fix might break something else. Steve |
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| #42371 | 11/29/2016 11:29:17 pm | ||
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newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive
| It is working for me, really nice to see this issue fixed. Thanks! | ||
| #42373 | 11/30/2016 12:58:44 am | ||
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Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4 
| Only thing broken for me so far was my browser forgot my password to the site. Had to scramble to find it  |
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| #42392 | 11/30/2016 2:36:09 pm | ||
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Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1
| Works for me |
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| #42437 | 12/01/2016 10:11:37 pm | ||
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admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator
| Had to disable this fix temporarily because it wasn't working on the local setup. Just need to put a little more work in to get this working on both locations. Steve |
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| #42599 | 12/04/2016 8:43:49 pm | ||
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admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator
| Okay...I think I have another fix for it. Steve |
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| #43186 | 12/21/2016 3:39:38 pm | ||
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Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1
| I still have the same old issue. Went away with the other fix, but not this one. | ||
| #43190 | 12/21/2016 4:56:56 pm | ||
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admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator
| What exactly doesn't work and how to you reproduce the issue? The first fix translated all the brokenbat.org URLs to just brokenbat.org. That fixed the problem, but broke other things. Now, I'm just translating brokenbat in forum posts to the brokenbat. That fixes the forum issue (as far as I can tell). So what is the case you're having?? Thanks, Steve |
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| #43215 | 12/22/2016 7:51:30 pm | ||
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Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1
| If I click on any of the links on [url=http://www..brokenbat.org/forum/0/2/4490]this page[/url] for example, they open a new window where I am no longer logged in. Currently I have http://www..brokenbat.org/ bookmarked. Maybe I just need to change my bookmark to http://brokenbat.org/? Updated Friday, December 23 2016 @ 7:23:55 am PST |
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| #43217 | 12/22/2016 9:31:03 pm | ||
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admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator
| If you click on it from the forum post, then you shouldn't have any problems. If you have in bookmarked in your browser, then yeah, it's probably still a problem (you might update your bookmark). Steve |
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| #43230 | 12/23/2016 7:19:03 am | ||
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Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1
| Updating the bookmark works. The problem is anyone who comes into www..brokenbat.org (like from Google), will have the same issue. It would really probably be better to be doing the opposite. Change the brokenbat.org links in the forum posts to www..brokenbat.org. That way anyone coming to this site from an external site won't have problems if they decide to bookmark the page. Its much less likely anyone would bookmark brokenbat.org since that isn't the address that would normally bring you here. TL/DR If you come into the site as brokenbat.org, you will have not problems. If you come into the site as www..brokenbat.org (the more normal way), than you will have the problem. P.S. the extra dot is just because otherwise it gets converted back to brokenbat.org, LOL Updated Friday, December 23 2016 @ 7:24:37 am PST |
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| #43231 | 12/23/2016 7:21:22 am | ||
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Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9602 Haverhill Halflings III.1
| Updated Friday, December 23 2016 @ 7:22:25 am PST |
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| #49230 | 05/17/2017 2:52:22 pm | ||
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BrianV Joined: 02/08/2016 Posts: 125 Inactive
| Hi Steve, Instead of just rewriting links in the forum, it may be easier to just to do a 301 redirect in the Apache setup: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-redirect-www-to-non-www-with-apache-on-ubuntu-14-04 |
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