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About the way login cookies work...

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Jim

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..sortof (I think). This would be a good feature for people like me who only visit certain forums every other day or so. Why cant the cookie that shows the user which threads have new messages since the last visit (via the icon) be set to not reset in every forum when you make a quick visit to, say, the hot deals forum only?

If that ain't clear heres what I mean. I check out the hot deals forum very frequently (several times a day). I read the other forums maybe once a day or less. Every visit I pay to the hot deals forum resets so that if I come back in 20 minutes to read General Hdwe all the "new posts in thread since your last visit" was reset to show new posts since I visited the hot deals forum 20 minutes earlier, when in fact I hadnt read the new posts in GenHdwe since yesterday (or longer).

I guess what I'm really saying is have a seperate "new posts in thread since your last visit" setting for each forum independently, not the whole BBS.

Heh, I dunno why I'm having such a hard time explaining. It seems so simple to me 🙂
 
Wow, I guess this really annoys me and nobody else 🙂

OK, that's my suggestion for the year, cyas next year!
 
Nah, it works just fine the way it is. The cookie sets your last visited date.. so if you close your browser and come back it will show stuff new since the last time you were on.

It makes absolutely perfect sense.
 
Actually, if I could leave that browser window open and it worked that way that would suit me just fine. Many times I goto the GenHdwe forumn directly from the Hot Deals forum (w/o closing the browser) and its reset when I get there. Is there a setting on my machine that could cause that?
 
I understand your predicament... it happens to me too. Or I quit accidentally or crashes before I get to read it, so all the threads appear not new.
 
Thats either one of two things

a) your browser is corrupting the cookie
b) you are hitting refresh on the front page which CLEARS the cookie

Both of which are an end-user issue. Welcome to the web and its lack of controlling state 🙂.
 
Sorry Zuni but something is definately awry on your end. I was just reading the pop-up ad thread in this forum, finished, went back to the main forum listing using the back arrow in IE5.5 and the cookie was reset. While I was reading that thread Russ supplied a link I clicked which opened in another window as usual, I closed it after I glanced at it for a sec. besides that nothing out of the ordinary happened. I didnt hit refresh, and the orig window never was closed either.
 
"using the back arrow"

dude if you were going "back" to a state that was precookie then its your problem not fusetalks, use the home button at the top of this page to go to the main page not the back button.

its because its pulling the page from your internet cache and not the server. (I think)
 
Jim, sorry you are confused, it is not a fusetalk issue if it was then the 50,000 members we have here would probably be not to happy since they couldn't use the forums?. I suggest you do some reading on how cookies work, that may help you understand what you are doing wrong. Thanks.
 


<< Jim, sorry you are confused, it is not a fusetalk issue if it was then the 50,000 members we have here would probably be not to happy since they couldn't use the forums?. I suggest you do some reading on how cookies work, that may help you understand what you are doing wrong. Thanks. >>



Zuni:
Sorry, you said in a previous post up the page that if I closed the browser and came back it would reset the cookie. I then assumed that I could save the state of the cookie by simply navigating through the site by constantly returning to the front page with the back arrow in the browser.

Exactly how should I navigate through the forums to save the sate of the cookie? Using the link in the forum pages? And fwiw, your quoted reply above didn't seem very professional IMO. I'm actually trying to get to the bottom of this and you decided it was necessary to insult?





<< its because its pulling the page from your internet cache and not the server. (I think) >>



Narzi: Thats what I was attempting to do, since my cached page should show the cookie setting in the state it was when I started reading the forums (which is what I want). Oddly enough it doesnt do it all of the time. Seems to be random.


[edit] Bah, nevermind. What's the point. Now I remember why I gave up on the Anandtech Forum last year and retreated to the Ars Forum. Thanks anyway for the help.


:disgust:
 
once the internet cache fills it dumps stuff, its not random...as for how you should go through the forums using the button on the forums is a good plan that should save the cookie state.
 
Jim, you have some issues with your browser, as i have said you are the only one who has a problem with cookies. When a cookie is set it stays until you close your browser in the forums, so either your browser is not getting the cookie in first place or something on your machine is corrupting the cookie once received. We cannot help you with your machine problems. Pressing back will not remove the cookie but when you login you should hit the front page and scroll down to the bottom to see if User logged in: says jim.

Since you still want to blame the software and anandtech forums, let me give you an idea on how the login cookies work. If you login and don't check remember my login, ColdFusion sets a cookie, it works, the 500 people logged in an enjoying our forums are evidence of that. Now, if your browser didn't set the cookie for ITS OWN REASON, then you aren't logged in. If the browser for some reason deleted the cookie, or it got corrupted THIS IS YOUR BROWSER that did that. Thats about as clear as it can get 😉.

One thing you can try is to delete any cookies you have from anandtech.com. That will clear the corruption then re login. Hit the front page and make sure it has you there.
 
Hmm i came in here to report the same thing that Jim was experiencing...


weird.

I find it quite annoying.

Ill see if i can't &quot;record&quot; what both myself and jim have encountered via screenshots and detail what actions we took to arrive at the current sitatuion.

 
Dont bother Lair. Zuni will tell you that its your fault and your doing something wrong. Unfortantely, I AM doing something wrong only when I come to this forum. The same type of system works fine on Infopop boards everywhere I visit, and I see no problems EXCEPT when I come here.

Sorry Zuni, but your dead wrong. There is a problem. I'm seeing it on 2 machines, the second with fresh installs of 98 and Win2k.
 
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