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Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73
Just tried logging off from Netscape 4.73 and logging back in (yes, deleting cookies), and guess what? I could not login, no matter what checkbox settings I selected.

Very annoying.
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
You should probably upgrade to a version worth using.

But it works fine for me with 4.73 (downloaded specifically to test).


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Re: [RedRum] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Excuse me!! But Netscape 4.6 and 4.73 are a hell of a lot more reliable than Netscape 6.X.

Would someone from GT staff please address this thread? I would prefer that very much.

Thank you.
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Cheers,
Me
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Haven't had any visitors to my sites using NS6 yet. Still quite a few from Netscape 4.x. A few good people still clinging onto the good 'ol days :-)

- wil
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Re: [Wil] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
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Haven't had any visitors to my sites using NS6 yet. Still quite a few from Netscape 4.x. A few good people still clinging onto the good 'ol days :-)

OK, let me be the first visitor with NS6/Mozilla/Galeon to your site! Check your logs for: "Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/0.12.5 (Linux i686; U;) Gecko/0"


Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins
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Re: [Wil] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
I just checked your site with 4.73 and the vertical line doesn't show!

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RedRum: Oct 30, 2001, 4:49 AM
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
The only LOGIN option that works is Don't Use Cookies...if you select none or just Remember Me, I am redirected back to the forum homepage and I am not logged in.

Yes, I did delete all my cookies and tested it more (in this forum...not in an installed version), it is definitely buggy in Netscape 4.73.
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Well I tried all options with the same version 4.73 and I didn't/don't have any trouble so one of us is doing something wrong.
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Re: [RedRum] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Again, I would like to hear from a GT staff member.

Thanks anyway, Paul, but I would prefer to hear from a GT
staff member.
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Cheers,
Me
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
I've been using Netscape 4.73 on Solaris on campus w/ Gossamer Forum (actually writing this message in it), and logging in and such is working fine. Of course it doesn't look as graphically pleasing as in IE or in Mozilla, but it works.


Adrian
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Re: [brewt] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Adrian,

Thank you for your response. The problem is with the domains of www.gossamer-threads.com and gossamer-threads.com.

Try it yourself:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...gforum.cgi?do=login;

http://gossamer-threads.com/...gforum.cgi?do=login;

Try using different settings of "Remember Me" and "Don't Use Cookies"....

I am able to login just fine with www.gossamer-threads.com, but not gossamer-threads.com.
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Yep...definitely a problem between WWW.gossamer-threads.com and GOSSAMER-threads.com...can login via WWW.gossamer-threads.com via NS 4.73, but cannot login via GOSSAMER-threads.com.

Cookies have been deleted prior to all attempted logins.
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Yes you are correct regarding www. and no www.
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
This must be a Netscape bug - the cookies are set to the domain gossamer-threads.com, so they should work for gossamer-threads.com, foobar.gossamer-threads.com, www.gossamer-threads.com, etc. It seems to work fine in anything else. I'll look into it.

Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com
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Re: [jagerman] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Yes you are right. Netscape 6.2 doesn't have this problem.
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Re: [jagerman] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Jason,

I don't think you are correct. At least for me using NS 4.73, the cookies are saved as username@www.gossamer-threads.

Look at my following cookie file:

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Apache
IPADDRESS711004468666681
www.gossamer-threads.com/
0
709171456
29524039
3010517552
29450613
*


Look at the attached screenshot, and you will see that www. is attached to the cookie name as well.
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Cheers,
Me
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Code:
[jagerman@jagerman jagerman]$ telnet gossamer-threads.com 80
Trying 216.176.198.65...
Connected to gossamer-threads.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?login_username=jagerman;login_password=hidden;remember_me=1 HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 19:03:22 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24_01
Set-Cookie: gforum_999748122_remember=a9bcef056da0933a10d66af824e81a58; expires=Fri, 04-Nov-2011 19:03:22 GMT; path=/; domain=.gossamer-threads.com
Set-Cookie: gforum_999748122_session=b51622418304d938f9060d0c40901397; path=/; domain=.gossamer-threads.com
Content-Type: text/html

HTML here

Hmm, there is supposed to be a blank line above the HTTP/1.0 200 OK and above the HTML - for some reason it isn't showing up. I'll add it to my list. Anyway, you can see that the cookies are being set with domain .gossamer-threads.com, which is correct and works for all browsers except Netscape. Great. Mad

Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Hi Eliot,

I thought netscape stored it's cookie in a cookies.txt? The screenshot you have looks to be cookies from IE?

On my NS4 they are stored in program files/Netscape/Users/default/cookies.txt.

What are the contents of that in relation to gossamer?

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
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Re: [Alex] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
My system at the b-school is configured to save cookies in \\USER\Cookies\ (for netscape).
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Cheers,
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Re: [Chewbaca] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Ah, didn't even know you could do that. =)

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
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Re: [jagerman] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
When I do this:

[admin admin]$ telnet gossamer-threads.com 80
Trying 216.176.198.65...
Connected to gossamer-threads.com.
Escape character is '^]'.


....it gets that far and then stops.....
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Re: [RedRum] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
That's where you type:

GET /perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?login_username=jagerman;login_password=hidden;remember_me=1 HTTP/1.0

and then Enter twice.

Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com
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Re: [jagerman] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
Ahhh Angelic
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Re: [Heckler] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
This bug is still there...

Any chance of fixing this???
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me
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Re: [Heckler] Login Doesn't Work: Netscape 4.73 In reply to
It's a Netscape bug, not Gossamer-Forum.

It works fine with Netscape 6+ and IE
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