<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by christep:
I'm not certain because I am also on a large corporate network and the proxy is in another continent. However, I believe it is set to "check automatically for updates". It certainly works absolutely fine with other BBs, such as http://www.pprune.org/forums/</font>
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But does that bulletin board get as much traffic as FT does? From what (little) I understand about proxy servers, some hold pages for sites they get a lot of requests for, in order to reduce load. I do know that there's nothing on FT set to cache; when a new post is made/edited, it's written directly to the flat file and viewable right away.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The "sign in by cookie" also works differently from PPrune. On PPrune I don't have to reenter my userid & password when posting - the cookie does it automatically, but on FT I do.</font>
Have you gone to the "Preferences" link (
http://www.flyertalk.com/forumcgi/ub...ction=setprefs ) and deleted, then reset your cookies for each board? It _should_ clear out any old/corrupted cookies and reset them with new ones that are supposed to stay on your machine for a year.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The lightbulb function is certainly not working as you describe. It seems that somehow it is setting a cookie on the proxy, not on my machine when I connect from work. Is that possible?</font>
That could be possible... I'll drop the UBB folks a line and see what they think about that.
Historically, we've gotten the majority of cookie & caching problems from computers behind network proxies, rather than at home (although we did have some problems with home users on the roadrunner network).
UPDATE:
Infopop got back to me about the proxy/cookie issue, and here's what they had to say:
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Yes - firewalls and proxy servers that strip or block cookies are pretty common - it may be blocking client-side Javascript as well.
First step is to have the user check this article:
http://infopopfaq.infopop.net/0/Open...9&m=6980943942
And if they can configure the browser at work well enough to accomodate posting from there, then we found our trouble.
If they can post from home without trouble then we have a pretty good idea that the firewall at work is stripping cookies.
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[This message has been edited by dan at WebFlyer (edited 08-30-2002).]