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Not very helpful to your problem, but I sometimes get disconnected by my ISP whilst reading some of the longer threads, but when I reconnect I can go ahead an vote without having to log back in or anything, so it would seem to me that the problem is with your browser/proxy/isp/set-up rather than with the PM site itself.

It might help if you identified which browser you are using along with any other salient relevant information that you have (EG. your connection is through a company firewall or your ISP uses a caching proxy, or you have Proxinomitron installed...etc).

That way, monks using a similar set-up may be able to say....do this or that or that they do not have the same problem... which may help to track down the cause of yours.

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Re: Re: Voting and Cookies
by pfm (Scribe) on Oct 23, 2002 at 13:18 UTC
    I am using Dillo It is a simple browser, and I have set it to receive cookies from PM. It is the latest version, but I don't know much about it, because of tiny documentation...

    My connection is through firewall. There is some proxy between me and the net, but I don't think this is the reason.

    There is also a strange thing - I am invisible on the list of users. Sometimes I appear, and sometimes I disappear (-:

    Regards
    pfm

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      pfm, I took a look at Dillo, and their bug tracking system has listed that the browser has some trouble with forms, queries and cookies, all of which are essential to working with Perl Monks.

      I suspect that cookies are your problem. Cookies are not implemented the same way by all browsers, some of which will fail to return all of the cookies to the website when making a request.

      I don't know what operating system you are on, but Opera works under Win9x/NT and Linux systems. I suggest giving that a shot (however, I've found that "tweaking" the cookie filter in Opera will sometimes render Perl Monks inoperable ).

      Hope this helps and good luck!

      Update: The other users nodelet takes a little bit to push you in there. It keeps you in there for three minutes, as well, so you could technically load a page from Perl Monks every 3 minutes and rand(59)+1 seconds and never see yourself in the list.

      If a Monk falls in the Monastery... :)

      John J Reiser
      newrisedesigns.com

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