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Dr. Dread · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject: Invalid_session

Am I the only only having trouble posting here? Every time I try to post something in MSIE
I get an error "Invalid_session"...

Yes, I did read Tommy's announcement. But I'm using plain MSIE 6.0 and no AOL stuff.

I am posting this now in Netscape 7 - no way to get through with MSIE.

Sad

Dr. Dread

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Hi Dread,

Try the following in order:

- Go to main page and try to post again
- Log out/in
- Clear cookies and login

The last fix will definitely fix it for sure. But you should also maybe try closing
all your VDSWORLD forum browsers and try again. Smile

Don't worry, the forum is not trying to make your like hard. It is simply a
security feature implemented by the people at phpBB to prevent session
hijacking. People have complained at the forums at phpBB.com and I'm
sure that the developers at phpBB are coming up with a solution.

In the mean time I might have another fix which I will ask Tommy about. Smile

Garrett · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:02 pm Post subject:

You might have to dump the cookies you have for the forum in MSIE and
let it set new cookies.

Mozilla just grabbed the new cookies and kept on trucking for me. Haven't
tried in MSIE yet.

-Garrett

Mac · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject:

This is a hassle with IE4. Confused

If I use new cookies (old ones removed), it will NOT login
automatically. Neither here nor at VDS Developer.

If I use the old cookies it does login automatically, but I get the
"Invalid Session" if I attempt to do anything - even logging out
(had to remove the old cookies before I could log out).

Any ideas?

Cheers, Mac Smile

Mac · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:00 am Post subject:

OK - found a workaround... Smile

The address/login ID appears in the IE4 address window once
I'm logged on - so I used that as the bookmark address, basically
bypassing the cookies.

Works fine here and at VDS Developer so far. Wink

Cheers, Mac Smile

Serge · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:25 am Post subject:

i deleted my @vdsworld.com cookies (2 of them) and i can't log out as it says "invalid session" and i can't post as i get the same message - using msie (i am now in opera!)

can someone tell me which cookies i should remove?

thanks

serge

Mac · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:37 am Post subject:

Serge, here's the format mine were in:

mac@www_vdsworld(?).txt

where ? is a number. Ya may need IE closed to remove them.

Another thing ya might try... If opera shows your login ID in the
address window, try copying the whole thing and pasting to the
IE window. If it logs in OK, ya can bookmark it (or edit the old
bookmark) as I did. Wink

Cheers, Mac Smile

Serge · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:57 am Post subject:

thanks mac, don't know what i did as i seem to be able to post but i can't log out as it takes me to the index of the forum saying that i am still logged in!

Serge

Serge · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:39 am Post subject:

oh no!..... now i can't post again with msie

i deleted the cookies you mentioned mac but no good...i still get invalid session and i still show as logged in which is weird given that the cookies were deleted so how come i got logged in?

i did delete the cookies while not running msie

can someone please advise me what to do?

ta

Serge

Serge · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:53 am Post subject:

found the cookies that need to be deleted Very Happy

they are the ones like serge@vdsworld(?)

have been able to login as new and post Very Happy

yiippeee!!!!!

Serge

Skit3000 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:51 pm Post subject:

moke · Contributor Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 162

In IE you can also try going to tools and Internet options. Edit the web sites in privacy, add vdsworld to override cookie handling. I think this will work.

moke

Serge · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:26 am Post subject:

Serge · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 9:34 am Post subject:

hi all,

i've deleted the cookies as mentioned above and i can login ok

BUT the problem now is that i can't login automatically even though i tick the checkbox to say so...

and i don't see the pictures like i used to that tells me which forum has new posts

i checked my cookies and msie (5.5) is not creating the cookies that i deleted earlier

i do have my msie set to accept cookies so i don't know what is going on...

can someone please advise me Smile

thanks in advance

Serge

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Make sure that you visit the forum every time with the same address,
if you have auto-login enabled and you logged in on http://forum.vdsworld.com/
you won't be automatically logged into http://www.vdsworld.com/forum/

BTW, what operating system do you use, I'm just curious. Smile