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March 08, 2006
Logged out: When I click the front-page link to read the Scott Sharp post, I'm not logged in, apparently because the link is to http://sportsfilter.com/columns/index.cfm?id=169 instead of http://www.sportsfilter.com/columns/index.cfm?id=169 Cookie issue?
posted by mr_crash_davis to bugs at 07:26 PM - 8 comments
Yeah, the cookie must be set to "www.sportfilter.com" instead of the all-encompassing "sportsfilter.com".
posted by yerfatma at 06:11 AM on March 09, 2006
Hm. I logged out from "www.sportsfilter.com" and discovered I was still logged into "sportsfilter.com", and all the linkies work. Weird.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 09:51 AM on March 09, 2006
Yeah, right now the cookie seems to be set up so that a sportsfilter.com cookie won't agree with a www.sportsfilter.com cookie. So you can log in twice, once with the "www" and once with out. Most people will be logged in under only the "www", which means when you're shunted to a non-www page, it looks like you're logged out. My memory is telling me all kinds of ways to fix this, but I don't trust it to tell me the right one.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:55 AM on March 09, 2006
Logging in sets cookies for both with and without the www, and logging out deletes cookies for both. At least, it's supposed to. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The ColdFusion code is really simple, so it's exasperating to try to fix, and since we're in the process of moving to something different and it's not a huge problem, I'm inclined to leave it alone for now.
posted by kirkaracha at 04:16 PM on March 09, 2006
I feel your pain. Not for this time, but Firefox's LiveHTTPHeaders extension can be a help in cases like this.
posted by yerfatma at 05:47 PM on March 09, 2006
Testing something. Nothing to see here. Delete if need be.
posted by scully at 08:03 PM on March 09, 2006
whoa! I deleted this seconds after I posted it! d'oh
posted by scully at 08:54 PM on March 09, 2006
Make that "Scott Speed"