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August 04, 2004

A 'Forgetful Comments' possibility

I've been doing some thinking about why some Munuvians and visitors get remembered & some don't. The one variable that I thought was worth checking is whether some folks have their browser's cookie permissions set differently with regard to storing cookies across domains (since MuNu uses so many subdomains)

Would folks who uses Firefox, and who have problems being remembered, please do the following, and report back in comments:

In the browser, got to Tools | Options | Privacy and click on Cookies. Let me know if the box marked For the originating wesite only is checked? And if it is, uncheck it, close and reopen your browser and retest the Remember Me seetings on your blog

Thanks!

Paul

Posted by: PaulT at 03:23 AM | Comments (89) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Rusty:

The default setting you refer to in the post only determines which of the 2 radio buttons will be selected when a user first comes to a comment page.

That's the polite way, so that an unsuspecting user won't get a cookie unless they specifically approve the action by changing the selection to yes. (Opt-in, as opposed to opt-out)

Changing that selection to yes 'should' change the behaviour of the script to place a cookie.

I've been doing a bunch of iterative testing, and will post the results in a new post in a few minutes.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at August 08, 2004 09:01 PM

2 test

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at March 26, 2005 05:30 PM

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