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geo · Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:01 am


	MidnightCoder wrote: geo, I answered your PM about this a couple days ago. Did you have any luck with what I suggested?

David,

It didn't work initially, but this morning I tested out Firefox and found it worked fine and kept me logged in on BT. So the problem was apparently limited to Safari. I did some research and learned that Safari sometimes does't properly purge your cookie plist when you clear the cache. So I did it manually, literally dragging the cookie plist to the trash and emptying it before restarting Safari. It seems to have fixed the problem. The weird thing is that on my laptop it appears that Safari does properly purge the cookie plist (you can see this because the file size goes from 1.5 mb to 4 k) but I was having the same problem. Is it possible that the cookie file on my desktop computer was screwing up my settings here on BT and causing my laptop to suffer the same issue? That doesn't seem likely. In any event, things appear to be functioning properly now.

MidnightCoder · Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:44 am

Glad to hear this is working for you now. I don't know much about Safari, beyond some tweaks to get markup to render properly in it. From what I've heard others say, Firefox would be your best bet overall if you can adapt to it. Chrome might be another option if you don't want to give up the Webkit engine. In any case, 1.5 megs of cookies is... a bit surprising. Cookies are just tiny text files, often in the 1-4 KB range.

I don't think the script on Booktalk here is sophisticated enough to notice sessions across more than one computer, or browser. I think it just sets a new cookie and creates a new session even if it's the same account being used, based on the fact that I often have this or other phpBB sites open and logged in on one account but in more than one browser, or on a second computer, at the same time. This only becomes an issue if the security settings in the script are overly aggressive, which is not the case here. I set those myself, and on the permissive side just to be sure that it won't cause problems for legitimate users.

Keep me posted here or by PM if you encounter more problems with the cookies. If there is a pattern of problems relating to Safari maybe I can tweak something to make it a bit better.

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