Staying logged in: www.woodwindforum.com/forums/... and woodwindforum.com/forums/...

[Yamahaaltoplayer]

It seems like they're two different websites. When I go to http://www.woodwindforum.com/forums/... and browse threads or whatever, I stay logged in. Once I click a link or go to anything that starts with http://woodwindforum.com/forums/... (without the WWW.) I'm no longer logged in. I go back to the address with the WWW. and I'm logged in again. And no, I didn't not clear my cookies or history.

[pete]

I can probably tweak a cookie setting, someplace.

Chocolate chip?

[pete]

That was easy. You have to log out and clear your cookies (I'm hopening for some Candy Cane ones, myself) and then log back in.

Works in Firefox, now.

[tictactux]

Technically, http://www.something.com and http://something.com are two different web pages. (ever seen the browser complain about an invalid certificate when surfing to https://junkdude.com ?)

Usually, both addresses are mapped to the same content, but this is not something the browser should interest, hence it would refuse to use cookies, certificates and the like.

So, if posting and using web addresses, always go by the "official" and fully qualified name.

[pete]

Technically, http://www.something.com and http://something.com are two different web pages. (ever seen the browser complain about an invalid certificate when surfing to https://junkdude.com ?)

Usually, both addresses are mapped to the same content, but this is not something the browser should interest, hence it would refuse to use cookies, certificates and the like.

So, if posting and using web addresses, always go by the "official" and fully qualified name.
True, but when you set up a domain name, you generally have an option to make www.something.com and something.com point to the same place. I'd say that 99% of websites have it set up this way.

DNS, making your life both easier and harder. I'd rather just go by the IP :).

In any event, I understand why vBulletin has the option to set cookies for multiple domains for the same forum: I could have http://forum.woodwindforum.com set up as an alias on the server and I'd want to make sure the cookie works for that. I just find it interesting that the default setting is to just have the cookie go to the exact path that the forum software was installed.

But, as I said, easy fix.

[tictactux]

True, but when you set up a domain name, you generally have an option to make www.something.com and something.com point to the same place. I'd say that 99% of websites have it set up this way.
Yes, but a good (read: security-conscious) browser ignores cookies set for/by anything else than the originating site. In other words - working as designed. And that's why there is this option in vBulletin.

[Yamahaaltoplayer]

Hey it works. Thanks. Now I want my Christmas cookies.:???: