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Posted by: SirAndy Nov 9 2003, 09:02 PM

alright. i fixed the cookie problem. took me only a few days. i'm tired now ...

ok, here it is in a nutshell:

- cookies are send to the client computer within the HTTP-Header.
- a http-header can NOT be send after any other data has been send to the client. (hence the name HEADER).
- if you attempt to send a cookie AFTER the header was sent, you either (on good systems) get a error message OR the cookie request will be ignored.
- for sloppy/stupid/unexpierienced/stupid/stupid programmers, there is a workaround where you can cache all web-page data in a buffer and if that web-page contains any header/cookie specific calls, those will be collected and send first, then the rest of the page. this is done by the web-server.
- this allows for really shitty code to actually work.
- this is what the guys who made our BBS code were doing. (IBF forums)


so, all i had to do was to set the "i'm a dumb-ass programmer" flag in the server settings,
and voila! it works again ...
Andy

Posted by: redshift Nov 9 2003, 09:06 PM

Yes it does! Awesome!




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Posted by: ChrisReale Nov 9 2003, 09:08 PM

Actually, I think this place has the patend on "Cookie Hell"
http://www.mrsfields.com/

Posted by: redshift Nov 9 2003, 09:09 PM

Yeah! Hellishly TASTY!





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Posted by: ! Nov 9 2003, 09:11 PM

What no BOOBS?????

Posted by: kwales Nov 9 2003, 09:14 PM

Nice job Andy,

Thanks!!!!

It knows who I am again!

Ken

Posted by: seanery Nov 9 2003, 09:26 PM

I met Debbie Fields at a conference we were staging. We did a shoot with her in my hotel room. She's a hottie! She loaded us up with some cookies, too!

Posted by: ChrisReale Nov 9 2003, 09:35 PM

Can I download this on Kaaza?

Posted by: Jeroen Nov 9 2003, 09:45 PM

Great job Andy ! ! !



Now if you can get this piece of cr@p to send out e-mails...


(have a few brewskies first though )

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: seanery Nov 9 2003, 09:52 PM

Nothing exciting to see. Our audio guy had the best (panty) shot though. He had to lay on the floor with the boom and had no option but to stare there

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 9 2003, 10:19 PM

Andy, you da man! I don't have to log in anymore and my first unread post button works again, but,,,,,,,,, When i close my browser and open it back, all the post are marked as unread again and takes me to the first post of the thread.

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 9 2003, 10:23 PM

hmmm, not for me. what are your browser settings? timezone-settings? cookies get deleted when closing the browser? can you check?

Andy

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 9 2003, 10:36 PM

cookies are enabled. Temp int files are not not deleted when closing browser. It actually started working properly, but now I have no unread post boxes at all. Maybe it'll be like the 914 does sometimes and fix itself?

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 9 2003, 10:43 PM

on the main bbs page (where you can choose the forum) there's a link to mark all posts as unread. do that and see if it happens again ...

Andy

Posted by: vsg914 Nov 9 2003, 10:50 PM

Andy, I was right for once! it fixed itself!!!! Didn't do anything, but everything seems to work as before. Thank you for all your hard work.

Curt