when ever i visit the forum at work on a pc it keeps track of the newest threads for m to read, but at home on my mac, it only keeps them for a day and then the next day it doesn’t continue to track my last visit. i hope i’m describing the problem accurately…any help?
Assuming you are logged in to the forums at all times on both machines, it sounds like you may need to change some cookie setting–I would guess that some cookie(s) are either being refused entirely on your Mac, or else deleted instead of kept. Look in your browser’s Preferences for cookie settings.
I’ve experienced this as well, but only on Safari… and after Firefox crashes (both on Win32 and OSX)
In the former case, I guess it’t the default cookie settings in Safari (it also forgets my gmail login all the time)… but I haven’t tried to find a solution, as I just use Firefox to browse the forums (and mail.app to fetch my gmail)
edit: It also seems that phpBB uses seperate cookies to store login information and read/unread status of messages. That’s both weird and irritating since you don’t get history unless you are logged in anyway, and I don’t get the same status on my work machine and my home computer.
thanks for the cookie info,
i checked ‘safari’ and it has the cookies but the ones for forum login and session history have an expiration date of one day. is there any way to change/fix that?
It is suppoesed to be in one year. I did a small debug of the http headers sent from forum.unity3d.com and got this header:
Set-Cookie: phpbb2mysql_data=*****; expires=Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:28:09 GMT; path=/; domain=unity3d.com
The problem is, that according to the cookie specs, the date should have dashes between the date, month and year. Apparently this makes Safari ignore the date and use 24 hour expiry date. The header should have looked like this:
Set-Cookie: phpbb2mysql_data=*****; expires=Mon, 30-Jul-2007 21:28:09 GMT; path=/; domain=unity3d.com
Some googling told me that this is a known bug in php: PHP :: Bug #33597 :: setcookie expires date format Maybe Otee just needs to upgrade its php installation?
Weird. I use Safari and have never had any problems with the cookies.
I use the forum RSS feed–just another option to keep in mind.
well,
i deleted the forum cookies i had and when i revisited the site low and behold the forum cookies now have an expiration date of jul 21, 07’. thanks for the help uniteam.
hey uniteam,
i thought i had the problem licked but the cookie is setting itself to the 24hr expiration period again instead of one year. any advise or is this something that has to be fixed with the php forum?