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ed_becerra
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12 posts		 07-09-03, 00:12 AM (EDT)
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"The Forum and Cookies"
 
   Exactly _how_ does the forum track what threads I've read
and haven't read? I'm curious, due to the fact that I
run "Windows Washer" once a week. Last time I ran it
(just a few hours ago), I noticed upon my return to the
forum that all of my "read" threads had become "unread".

Anyone know the answer to that? I'd like to know so I can
instruct Washer to ignore or save whatever settings are
resident on my own machine.

Edward A Becerra


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rwpikul
Member since 6-22-03
1 posts		 07-09-03, 00:17 AM (EDT)
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1. "RE: The Forum and Cookies"
In response to message #0
 
   >Exactly _how_ does the forum track what threads I've read
>and haven't read? I'm curious, due to the fact that I
>run "Windows Washer" once a week. Last time I ran it
>(just a few hours ago), I noticed upon my return to the
>forum that all of my "read" threads had become "unread".
>
>Anyone know the answer to that? I'd like to know so I can
>instruct Washer to ignore or save whatever settings are
>resident on my own machine.

FWIU: It uses a timestamp either per conference or
for the entire forum, (depending on your settings), if a
thread has posts after the timestamp it is flagged as
unread.

HTH HAND

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Phoenix


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ed_becerra
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12 posts		 07-11-03, 05:53 PM (EDT)
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3. "RE: The Forum and Cookies"
In response to message #1
 
   > FWIU: It uses a timestamp either per conference or
>for the entire forum, (depending on your settings), if a
>thread has posts after the timestamp it is flagged as
>unread.
>
> HTH HAND

Okay, after doing a lot of digging, and installing a
forensic cookie tool, I've found that the Forum does
put a cookie on my machine, and that it contains
several data fields.

Among these are "TimeStampCookie", "LastVisitCookie",
and a session ID.

As a result, I've set all my privacy programs to pass
that cookie, and my drive & file washer programs to
ignore it.

I set pretty high privacy standards, as I am the target
of the occasional attack from skript-kiddie wanna-be's,
and I guess the EPU forum settings were caught in the
crossfire, so to speak.

Edward A Becerra


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goldenfire
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2. "RE: The Forum and Cookies"
In response to message #0
 
   >Exactly _how_ does the forum track what threads I've read
>and haven't read?

AFAIK, if you log in, your read/unread (per conference) is stored server-side.
If, however, you read as an anonymous user (but then you wouldn't be able to post!) I have no idea how the read/unred info is stored. I have, on occasion, found my cookies deleted, and needed to log back in. Once I did that, however, the forums remembered what I had read.


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