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Title: error
Post by: KULPDOGG on April 08, 2003, 05:33:10 pm

i cant do anything
i keep on getting this...
General Error:
Invalid_session

Title: error
Post by: Vultch on April 08, 2003, 05:36:06 pm

Divasteph got the same error a while back.
Dunno if it was ever resolved or not.

Ref: http://forum.nessaholics.com/viewtopic.php?t=782

Title: error
Post by: kaysha on April 08, 2003, 06:56:14 pm

steph needed to use IE instead of the AOL Browser to have things work properly.

what browser kulp?

Title: error
Post by: Vultch on April 08, 2003, 07:00:12 pm

he uses the AOL browser too with full parental locks to boot.

his post about it on the OBoard
http://www.vanessacarlton.com/bboard/forumname/1402961_flat.html

Title: error
Post by: kaysha on April 08, 2003, 08:00:46 pm

Kulp, this is absolutely NOT a problem with the forums.  This is a problem with AOL and how they do proxy surfing through their numerous web caches.  I've tweaked the session code to only validate the first two octets as opposed to the entire IP.  Please let me know if that helps.

You can read up on AOL web caches here (http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html)

In addition to that, thre is an entire thread here (http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=39990) on the phpBB forums discussing what a problem this is with AOL.

I don't feel comfortable completely removing the ip source validation as it then becomes a security risk for all the other users.  In addition, completely altering all the code to add in the IP ranges for AOL proxies, is a lot of work and quite a pain.

-katia

Title: ...
Post by: KULPDOGG on April 09, 2003, 01:04:02 pm

i donno, lets see, does it work? :?

Title: OH!
Post by: KULPDOGG on April 09, 2003, 01:04:46 pm

YAY!
i didnt get an error that time...
cool!
 :D  :D  :D  :D  :D