New posts on a topic since last visit to forum - Indication available?

[LvR]

Hi guys

Think I have asked about this before - is it just my browser not showing this info, or is it really not available?.



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Lawrence

[Kruzin]

Works fine here.
Threads with new posts are shown with as red.
You must have cookies enabled in your browser for it to work.

[LvR]

Thanks for the reply

Cookies enabled and working well on other forums . Suspect I may have corrupt cookies relevant to this forum - any ideas wich ones to delete other than the obvious - have tried with the obvious ones, but no success.

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Lawrence

[Gurm]

We're talking about a little red folder, right? Not necessarily a red link?

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[LvR]

Hi

Little red folder ?. If the little yellow folder on the lefthand column is supposed to turn red, then yes - have not yet seen it though.

The animation on the little yellow folder gets through to indicate hot toppic.

OK - I decided to dump the contents of my cookie bin in total - still no go, even though cookies relevant to this forum were recreated on my next visit here.

?????

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Lawrence

[This message has been edited by LvR (edited 06 February 2001).]

[Greebe]

What browser are you using?

Have you tried deleting all the cookies set by the MURC forum through this sites preferences?

[paulcs]

Are you coming in to individual forums directly from the MURC's homepage?

Or do you come in directly from this page:

http://forums.murc.ws/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

I'm not sure if this is still true, but when I accessed an individual forum directly from it's link on the MURC's homepage, the little file icons on the side would alway be yellow. If I access the forums from the forums' mainpage (the above link), all is well.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[xortam]

... That's true Paul (at least used to be). I used to only visit the MHW forum and didn't know about the red folders for the longest time.

[paulcs]

The cookie is named "cgi-bin/." You'll probably have several with that name. Directly to the right of the cookie's name is the Internet Address, which should be something like "[your computer's name]@matroxusers.com/cgi-bin/."

I believe it is the only one relevant to the
forums. I've deleted every cookie but this one, and my preferences are maintained.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[LvR]

Thanks to all interested parties - problem solved.

Have actually followed all your suggestions before, and once again now with no joy.

Decided that the forum "admin system" maybe decided to ignore my existence - so tried to set "store my username and password" to "no" on the preferences page. Saved the settings, did a bit of browsing, came back after a while, set "store my username and password" to yes, saved the settings and -Hey Presto - problem solved.

Those little red folders do look nice and help a lot with productivity Gurm.!




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Lawrence

[xortam]

Sounds like somebody had taken a bite out of your cookie. Fresh cookies are tasty!

[LvR]

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Cookie Monster Strikes Again!

Problem is back today!

When I go here :

http://forums.murc.ws/cgi-bin/Ultima...assCookie=true

I expected to see the little yellow lightbulbs indicating new posts in the lefthand column - I have NO indicators AT ALL in that column, and I suspect that is what is causing the yellow folders on the actual post pages to stay yellow in stead of turning red.

Tried last sollution again - but now it simply ignores me completely by the looks of it.

Is it possible that I have a corrupt user profile on the forum? ALL other forums I use seem to be able to track my cookies ok

I also notice that whenever I post on the forum, my browser offers 2 user names as a option - Could this be the reason, and how do I remove one or both of them to get rid of the hassle?

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Lawrence

[This message has been edited by LvR (edited 07 February 2001).]

[Kruzin]

Look at that link.
At the end of it, it says "&BypassCookies=true"
Remove that bit from your link.

[This message has been edited by Kruzin (edited 07 February 2001).]

[LvR]

Sorry about that Greebe

W2K + SP1 and IE501

Kruzin

That seems to do the trick for now, thanks - that link was copied from the actual page - question then seems to be where does the bypass come from?

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Lawrence

[This message has been edited by LvR (edited 07 February 2001).]

[LvR]

OK - So I decided to look at the "chinese Fortune Cookie" left on my machine by the forum admin - "administrator@cgi-bin[2]".

It reads :

DaysPrune
5
forums.murc.ws/cgi-bin/
0
3071600512
29470603
1053209312
29397178
*
NameStorage
yes
forums.murc.ws/cgi-bin/
0
3071600512
29470603
1053309312
29397178
*
UserName
LvR
forums.murc.ws/cgi-bin/
0
3947025664
29470616
1923064464
29397191
*
Password
XXXXXXXX
forums.murc.ws/cgi-bin/
0
3947025664
29470616
1923164464
29397191
*
lastLogin
2451948.1224
forums.murc.ws/cgi-bin/
0
3078922496
29470674
1053441296
29397249
*
LastLoginDT
02-07-2001%2012%3A24%20PM
forums.murc.ws/cgi-bin/
0
3078922496
29470674
1053641296
29397249
*

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(I blanked the password)

Anything strange here? Lastlogin and lastloginDT maybe?

Is there good news in my fortune cookie?

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Lawrence