Known bugs thread - Login, Logout, Avatar bugs fixed

vanderaj · 2009-09-28T13:02:30+00:00

Hi there, The following bugs have been resolved. Please test: * Login required every single time (FIXED - please test) * Logout doesn't work (FIXED - please test) * Avatars - wouldn't allow it to be changed (FIXED - please test) * Photos - wouldn't allow it to be changed (FIXED - please test) If you want to change your avatar or photo, can you please try now and let me know if you succeed. Technical details For those of you not technically inclined, ignore this section. Otherwise, read on! I put in a bunch of login / logout fixes. Not only will it be faster as it doesn't refresh the page unnecessarily, it now remembers how to login correctly. The new cookie code tries three paths to login automagically - session (safest), ubbstate (new cookie format version 1), and finally ubbuser / ubbpw (the old XMB path which has "issues"). For those of you with older style ubbuser / ubbuid cookies, they will be automagically converted to the new ubbstate cookie format with no intervention. When I make some further fixes - essentially removing your password from the state mechanism, it should be transparent to you as well. Logout now works. The old code output some HTML before trying to set cookies, which never works. The new code eliminates that HTML output, and has all the legendary logout features you'd expect... including rotating the session ID and nuking the bejeezus the server side session. Try pressing "Back" after logging out and see if you can see stuff or resume access as yourself. This is how it's supposed to work. Avatar and photo handling uses the GD library that is everywhere... but our system. I recompiled it into the newest PHP 5.2.11, and fixed a few egarious PHP 4.x bugs from the original avatar / photo hack. Seems to be good now. Please test. thanks, Andrew

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2,282 posts · joined May 2003 · 1 Oct 2009, 5:43 am

#738348

Thanks for all your hard work guys.

Marc & Kathy

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swish1 Officially Full-On Dubber

264 posts · joined Feb 2005 · 2 Oct 2009, 6:15 pm

#738628

I still have to log in every time i turn either computer , dam

i started with nothing and have most of it left !

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1,000 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 9 Oct 2009, 8:58 am

#739705

thankyou for all of your hard work keeping this place going for us.