New Changes!
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Ok, just to let you all know, there are a few changes that took place tonight.
#1) I cached the global options. To most of you, this means nothing more than things run faster.
#2) I retooled the user group page, the change should not be noticable in terms of what you see, but the stuf that runs it got completly re-tooled. It is a ton faster now. I dont know how the phpBB group slept at night knowing they released a file that slow.
#3) THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT: I am changing the logins to be more secure. The change only affects javascript powered browsers, the rest will still be able to connect with clear text passwords. Basically when you click login javascript does some funky stuff and makes your password uuber encrypted and also makes it so people can't "replay" the encryption to login as you. If that didnt make sense, it boils down to this, if you have a computer with a browser that is newer than 1996 I have made your password a bit safer. The problem is I borked the code somewhere and I need sleep, so this final change will be turned on tommorow.
If you admin your own phpBB board and want a copy of the patches they will be available by the end of the week. They wont be in that stupid easy mod format they will be available in .patch form. This works two fold, a) I dont have to handwrite easy mod code, b) if you dont know how to use the patch < /path/to/file.patch system, you probably shouldnt be using "experimental" code.
If you are having any problems especially with the user group pages, logging in, or you see something about a cache/ directory, please post in here.
Thanks.
#1) I cached the global options. To most of you, this means nothing more than things run faster.
#2) I retooled the user group page, the change should not be noticable in terms of what you see, but the stuf that runs it got completly re-tooled. It is a ton faster now. I dont know how the phpBB group slept at night knowing they released a file that slow.
#3) THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT: I am changing the logins to be more secure. The change only affects javascript powered browsers, the rest will still be able to connect with clear text passwords. Basically when you click login javascript does some funky stuff and makes your password uuber encrypted and also makes it so people can't "replay" the encryption to login as you. If that didnt make sense, it boils down to this, if you have a computer with a browser that is newer than 1996 I have made your password a bit safer. The problem is I borked the code somewhere and I need sleep, so this final change will be turned on tommorow.
If you admin your own phpBB board and want a copy of the patches they will be available by the end of the week. They wont be in that stupid easy mod format they will be available in .patch form. This works two fold, a) I dont have to handwrite easy mod code, b) if you dont know how to use the patch < /path/to/file.patch system, you probably shouldnt be using "experimental" code.
If you are having any problems especially with the user group pages, logging in, or you see something about a cache/ directory, please post in here.
Thanks.
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Cool!
Does that include the chash MOD?
Kinda hard, isn't it?
FYI, alpha, I had login problems and I posted about them in the mod forum because I hadn't seen this post yet.
Awww thanks!
Janson: Listen bitches, just shut up and get back to licking my floor clean.
I'm not dealing with your kind of crap today.
Except when I DO hit the login button, it says "Oops, wrong pw or invalid user id, try again" and I have to enter it manually.
other changes?
You know, the...new and improved.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
NO SUCH THING! :x
I think this is actually true.
YES! ALLOW US TO ABANDON THIS INTARWEBTERNET POST HASTE AND RETURN TO THE TELEGRAPH! NO! CARRIER PIGEONS! NOW.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Ramius made a post about this earlier today, only he was a little more freaked about it.
Now what did Alpha say...?
We had a big long discussion about this in SE. I claimed there could be no such thing that is both new and improved. Several others disagreed. It was fun.
What if there's this playground that's all beat up. But someone makes a new one of it and improves a little bit on it? Then it's new AND improved. Right?
Things seem to have mellowed out. No bugs to date. I just installed a security hack, that shouldn't be too noticible unless you are trying to do something malicious
EDIT : The security mod is here and my variation on it is listed here. I highly reccomend the mod to anyone running a forum (with register_globals enabled)
it went away after two refreshes.
*shrug*
That happens to me sometimes, but I don't think it's just PA. Maybe the browser is getting the info and it's loading the page then it's like "Oh crap, what was I doing"
i'm running Opera 7.somethingprettyrecent, but i'm going to download 7.evenmorerecent and try that out.
Basically, now when i log in, it kicks me back to the log in screen and never acts as though i'm logged in. If i refresh it does nothing, but if i close and reopen the window, it shows me as logged in.
i was thinking it was an issue with Opera and cookies or something, but then i saw this thread...
Edit: i have no IE to test on this computer, but i may download some hot Mozilla action and see what's up. No problems on the FreeBSD box though.
Say more....
i was on 7.3something and now i'm on 7.52.
If you guys are still tracking some login issues and it comes up again, i can take note.
The only way i could imagine that the issue is only temporarily fixed is if there's a discrepancy between how the browser handles logging out manually and the cookie or whatever expiring.