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Preview Message in Post Form misfires [message #15685]

Wed, 31 December 2003 13:29

wfjmueller

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When posting to this forum, thus using 2.6.0RC11, I had now a few times the following strange effect:

Clicking the 'Preview Message' button in the Post Form did not produce the desired preview, but presented the home page....

The URL was something like

http://fud.prohost.org/forum/index.php?S=####

where #### was not equal to the session-id (the SQ=....) I had in this session.

I could always recover by clicking 'Back' in my browser (Mozilla 1.4.1 or 1.5) and simply clicking again on 'Preview Message'.

This behaviour is stochastic, I guess the probablilty is in the 3-10% range.

I never saw this behaviour with different FUDforum installation running 2.5.2.

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Re: Preview Message in Post Form misfires [message #15692 is a reply to message #15685]

Wed, 31 December 2003 19:38

Ilia

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This is likely happening because while writing the reply you were also browsing the forum. Which caused the SQ to change causing you to be redirected to the front page. In the next release the SQ expiry time increased to reduce the change of this happening.

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Re: Preview Message in Post Form misfires [message #15705 is a reply to message #15692]

Fri, 02 January 2004 12:57

wfjmueller

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Ilia wrote on Wed, 31 December 2003 20:38

In the next release the SQ expiry time increased to reduce the change of this happening.

Do I guess correctly, that this is an mechanism against session hijacking ? Is the SQ expiry time configurable ?

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Re: Preview Message in Post Form misfires [message #15712 is a reply to message #15705]

Fri, 02 January 2004 15:54

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Yes, SQ ensures that sessions cannot be hijacked. The expiry time of this option is not configurable at this time.

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Re: Preview Message in Post Form misfires [message #15745 is a reply to message #15692]

Sat, 03 January 2004 14:36

wfjmueller

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Ilia wrote on Wed, 31 December 2003 20:38

This is likely happening because while writing the reply you were also browsing the forum.

I had lately a case of SQ timeout where I definitely did not browse in parallel other forum pages. It just took a few minutes to complete the posting... so it seems just to be a too short a time out.

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Re: Preview Message in Post Form misfires [message #15749 is a reply to message #15745]

Sat, 03 January 2004 19:34

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The timeout would cause you to be taken to the front page ONLY in the even you had browsed other forum pages.

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