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Logged in forums as someone else?!

Angryellow

By Angryellow,
Posted on: 2009-09-26 11:50 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man View Post
I don't think you can actually do anything from that page...I've noticed that the server time listed at the bottom of the page does not move at all...it's always been 8:08 PM.
Mine says:
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All times are GMT -4. The time now is 07:52 PM.
And that's what time it is right now.

 

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This seems possibly server-side cache or cookie-related. I usually access the forums by going to 'http://boards.cityofheroes.com/' and when I hit the main page I was logged out. However, when I clicked on Development to go into the Development category, I was logged in as myself.

I opened a ticket with NC support but I don't know if anyone is going to be looking at this anytime this weekend.

 

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Originally Posted by drogoh View Post
This seems possibly server-side cache or cookie-related. I usually access the forums by going to 'http://boards.cityofheroes.com/' and when I hit the main page I was logged out. However, when I clicked on Development to go into the Development category, I was logged in as myself.

I opened a ticket with NC support but I don't know if anyone is going to be looking at this anytime this weekend.
Interesting. I get the same reaction here on Firefox on my Windows 7 32-bit system. Opening the site it doesn't know who I am, but when I click on Development is has me logged in.

Curioser and curioser.

It's even odder that my IE8 and Firefox on Vista 64-bit remember who I am and keep me logged in even after closing the browser and re-opening it. My Windows 7 64-bit system keeps me logged in as well after closing the browser.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Originally Posted by drogoh View Post
This seems possibly server-side cache or cookie-related. I usually access the forums by going to 'http://boards.cityofheroes.com/' and when I hit the main page I was logged out. However, when I clicked on Development to go into the Development category, I was logged in as myself.
Same here, the main page shows me logged off.

I use http://boards.cityofheroes.com/usercp.php as my bookmark and I operate strictly from there, so I didn't notice before.

Even weirder is that http://boards.cityofheroes.com/ we are logged off, but...
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/index.php I am logged in.

 

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Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
Same here, the main listing shows me logged off.

I use http://boards.cityofheroes.com/usercp.php as my bookmark and I operate strictly from there, so I didn't notice before.

Even weirder is this:
Like we said, http://boards.cityofheroes.com/ we are logged off, but...
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/index.php I am logged in.

Aha, that is possibly why I am seeing that discrepancy. My Vista and Win7 64-bit systems are set to use the UserCP page as my homepage. On my XP and Win7 32-bit system, I was simply going to boards.cityofheroes.com and getting the page showing I wasn't logged in.

When I bookmarked the UserCP page on my Win7 32-bit system and then opened Firefox and went to that link, it remembered me.

Ok, now my curiosity is abated somewhat. I have nothing more to contribute.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
My guess would be that the common factor between all of you is either XP or IE7.

IE8 isn't doing this for me. Firefox isn't doing this for me. Vista isn't doing this for me. Windows 7 isn't doing this for me.

Currently, I'm only getting it on XP and IE7. I had uninstalled Firefox on that computer when I replaced a drive and haven't reinstalled it yet. Once I get it reinstalled I'll test it, but only with the newest version of Firefox. That should tell us whether it is an XP specific item or an IE7 specific item.
This is incorrect. I have XP and IE8, and still I logged on as 'Paladin'

"There's no magic formula that's guaranteed to make us produce a universally loved item each and every week, hell some people even poo pooed Street Justice." --Zwillinger

 

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Originally Posted by Arbiter_Morrison View Post
i was AegisWolf too
Me 3

 

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Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
My guess would be that the common factor between all of you is either XP or IE7.

IE8 isn't doing this for me. Firefox isn't doing this for me. Vista isn't doing this for me. Windows 7 isn't doing this for me.

Currently, I'm only getting it on XP and IE7. I had uninstalled Firefox on that computer when I replaced a drive and haven't reinstalled it yet. Once I get it reinstalled I'll test it, but only with the newest version of Firefox. That should tell us whether it is an XP specific item or an IE7 specific item.
i have Vista and IE8 and this happened to me. first couple of times i was AegisWolfe and teh next couple of times i was Delrune.

 

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Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
Yep, told me "Welcome, Paladin."
I got this one a few hours ago. This was on XP w/ IE6

Be well, people of CoH.

 

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I was paladin to.. tried to click a forum and it told me I didn't have permission I refreshed the page and was myself again. I was using XP/Firefox 3.5.3

 

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I believe this type of message board software may use server-side caching tied to a session key stored in your cookie. If I had to guess I'd say something killed the database of session keys - they're all blank now, but the cache expiration is intact. So you get the first name in the cache list until it expires, then you get the next and so on.

Unless something is hosing the cache session keys repeatedly, the problem should work itself out eventually.

Of course I could be wrong and the user database could be hosed, but I'm hoping that's not the case...

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