Re: Perlmonks 'Not logged in Error' - Proposal for fix

[Corion]

in reply to Perlmonks 'Not logged in Error' - Proposal for fix

Perlmonks simply sets a cookie and whatever client you use remembers it for whatever hostname you use. There is no way to convince a browser by doing .htaccess magic or other server configuration so that the browser sends a cookie for www.perlmonks.org when it accesses perlmonks.org.

We could make http://perlmonks.org always redirect to http://www.perlmonks.org, but I'm not really convinced that there actually is a problem.

[Anonymous Monk]

99% of the problems could be fixed by autocorrecting perlmonks linking shortcuts in preview (and whatever processes chatterbox talk)

The problem is folks typically use  [ http...perlmonks...node_id=... ] instead of  [id://...#] or rarely the  <a href="http...perlmonks..."> which results in unrelative links

This could be easily fixed for new nodes

[tinita]

99% of the problems could be fixed by autocorrecting perlmonks linking shortcuts

I agree. I have done that in my forum software (with the possibility to turn it off), and it's really helpful

[tmharish]

We could make http://perlmonks.org always redirect to http://www.perlmonks.org

Which is what I was hoping for!

I'm not really convinced that there actually is a problem.

I am not so sure about that - For those more experienced, it certainly is not a problem. But for someone new to programming it might be.

Wouldn't it make more sense to let those who know what they are doing go through a little more effort to achieve a couple of things ( such as post from multiple users using different domains ) and so on rather than forcing those who are relatively new to make sure they use relative links?

[tinita]

Not by server configuration, but by changing the code.
You could explicitly set the cookie domain to .perlmonks.org for http://perlmonks.org and http://www.perlmonks.org