Re: Perlmonks 'Not logged in Error'

Perlmonks simply sets a cookie and whatever client you use remembers it for whatever hostname you use. There is no way to convince a browser by doing .htaccess magic or other server configuration so that the browser sends a cookie for www.perlmonks.org when it accesses perlmonks.org.

We could make http://perlmonks.org always redirect to http://www.perlmonks.org, but I'm not really convinced that there actually is a problem.

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Re^2: Perlmonks 'Not logged in Error' - Proposal for fix (autocorrect perlmonks linking shortcuts in preview ) by Anonymous Monk on Jan 20, 2013 at 10:13 UTC
99% of the problems could be fixed by autocorrecting perlmonks linking shortcuts in preview (and whatever processes chatterbox talk) The problem is folks typically use `[ http...perlmonks...node_id=... ]` instead of `[id://...#]` or rarely the `<a href="http...perlmonks...">` which results in unrelative links This could be easily fixed for new nodes	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Perlmonks 'Not logged in Error' - Proposal for fix (autocorrect perlmonks linking shortcuts in preview ) by tinita (Parson) on Jan 20, 2013 at 12:20 UTC
99% of the problems could be fixed by autocorrecting perlmonks linking shortcuts I agree. I have done that in my forum software (with the possibility to turn it off), and it's really helpful	[reply]
Re^2: Perlmonks 'Not logged in Error' - Proposal for fix by tinita (Parson) on Jan 20, 2013 at 12:16 UTC
Not by server configuration, but by changing the code. You could explicitly set the cookie domain to `.perlmonks.org` for http://perlmonks.org and http://www.perlmonks.org	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perlmonks 'Not logged in Error' - Proposal for fix by tmharish (Friar) on Jan 20, 2013 at 10:30 UTC
We could make http://perlmonks.org always redirect to http://www.perlmonks.org Which is what I was hoping for! I'm not really convinced that there actually is a problem. I am not so sure about that - For those more experienced, it certainly is not a problem. But for someone new to programming it might be. Wouldn't it make more sense to let those who know what they are doing go through a little more effort to achieve a couple of things ( such as post from multiple users using different domains ) and so on rather than forcing those who are relatively new to make sure they use relative links?	[reply]