Need advice from any other programmers out there...

[Bacardi151]

We are planning to allow a user to move between the website and forums and bring along all the user information for upcoming updates to the site, such as comments, user-reviews, etc...

I am now at the point where we can basically do everything except check for cookies. This is how it plays out

The forums set a cookie and I am trying to reach it. The issue here is that although both the forums and website are on the same domain DNS-wise, they are sitting on different boxes with different ip's( obviously).

MY QUESTION: how in the hell , if possible , can I read a cookie set in forums.operationsports.com from www.operationsports.com. Or are the cookies treated as separate since its 2 different machines?

[fossen]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

Bacardi -

I'm no cookie master - but I did a little research...

I think the cookies can't be read since you're fully qualifying the name in the cookie. For example, my cookie for the forums is "[email protected]". If both the front page and the forums would set a cookie in the form of "USERNAME@operationsports", then that cookie can be read by anything in the operationsports domain.

Feel free to PM me - I don't know much on cookies, but I can check stuff out.

[Bacardi151]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

Yeah i was doing a little bit of research, being i am no cookie master either, and found the same info. I will be changing the way the cookie domain is set up int he forums. RIght now it no domain info is being passed so the default cookie 'forums.operations.com', as you had mentioned, is being used. Gonna change that

thanks for you reply =)

[imported_Administrator]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

There is only one cookie master...

[Bacardi151]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

UBB code is hard to follow sometimes

*hopes UBB has not been angered*

[imported_Administrator]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

UBB Code simply saw someone mention "cookie master". There is only one "cookie master". He may not be able to help you with your specific cookie problem but felt his presence was needed.




See even Bert agrees with UBB Code.

[bdunn13]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

really sux the stuff is on more than one box and in more than one language.. this could cause some sloppy code..

BD

[Bacardi151]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

not necessarily

actually not any worse than it already is; the website that is.

I just need to access the forums db and the cookies set up by the forums. That will be the info which will follow the user around throughout the entire visit to any machine in the operationsports.com domain.

Trust me, i am gonna start revamp the site and putting in other coding methodologies .

[bdunn13]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

is the forums using sessions? You can do some really cool stuff with php and sessions.

[bdunn13]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

I just have not seen any code in a long time use cookies directly(i know sessions ids are stored as cookies).. thats why I ask.

anyhow. if you need any help, let me know.. I am pretty good in php, asp, c#, sql server, MySq.. perll.... you name it...

BD

[Bacardi151]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

great!

someone else i can talk to in case i get stuck

I guess we both fell from the same tree
Resume includes perl, php, asp(vbscript and jscript), c, c++, c# , lisp, awk(can we can that a language?) , java, and just about anything else that they can come up with

Oh yeah, UBB doesnt use sessions, its all cookies from what i can see. Trust me, once i get the info its all session variables on the ASP side.

[bdunn13]

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"lisp, awk"

uhhh.. I did some lisp in school, but thats about it.. about the only thing I remember about lisp is its all recurisive.. and car, cuder, cat (is that right??)

awk... never seen it.. prob never will

BD

[fossen]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

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There is only one cookie master...

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No. That is a cookie monster.

This is a cookie master.

[imported_Administrator]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

So true So true

[bdunn13]

Re: Need advice from any other programmers out there...

man those are some good cookies.