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login page drops guest ID
As a user moves round the forum he is tracked by the guest ID in the query string... if he views the login page and then continues to browse the forum rather than login or sign up a new guest ID is issued thus distorting the 'who's online' figures. Why is the guest ID not carried through the login page?


moog
-- I've spent most of my money on beer and women... the rest I just wasted.
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Yeah I saw that where if I look around a bit as a guest before logging in then I see my IP address as an admin on three or four different guest instances on the who's online page, which as you say means the system somehow sees me as a different guest when I switch pages.

John
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Jag: Sep 10, 2002, 9:03 AM
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Hi moog,

I have been pondering this for a while. I would like to see the guest figures in the who's online better reflect the actual number of guest on line. This could maybe be done by allowing only one unique IP per guest entry.

Maybe for version 2?Smile
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I've never understood why the same guest can show many times online. Now I do :)

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Paul: Sep 10, 2002, 9:37 AM
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I have found the following line in the Gforum::User->login() sub...

delete @GForum::HIDDEN{qw/guest login_username login_password session/};

...if this line is changed to...

delete @GForum::HIDDEN{qw/login_username login_password session/};

...the guest variable is carried correctly, the question is that does this change have any impact on the smooth running of the forum? Alex? Jagerman? Anyone?...


moog
-- I've spent most of my money on beer and women... the rest I just wasted.
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You mean, editing the User.pm file? I did the modification as you show me, and still cant login using frames Pirate




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Yes the User.pm file...

You say that you still can't log in... this sounds like you already had problems...


moog
-- I've spent most of my money on beer and women... the rest I just wasted.
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bump!


moog
-- I've spent most of my money on beer and women... the rest I just wasted.
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http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...rum.cgi?post=218376;

Ivan
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Thanks Yogi...


moog
-- I've spent most of my money on beer and women... the rest I just wasted.