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ObiBong
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1162 Posts
12/02
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 5:09PM
I use the active topics page as my ADT bookmark. I had to change the bookmark yesterday or the day before, and the new version doesn't work when I come back to the site from elsewhere -- it shows no active topics.

If I stay at ADT for a few minutes, when I hit active topics it shows the new ones. Anyone else having this problem?

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 6:45PM
I'll look at it. I changed the way that we store cookies site-wide late last night. I bet that something's screwy there.
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 6:53PM
When you hit the active topics page what does it say for your last visit?
cobalt60
Knuckle Dragger

2046 Posts
2/03
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 7:04PM
I'm having the same problem. It says my last visit was 13 minutes ago.
ObiBong
Senior Member

1162 Posts
12/02
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 7:08PM
The last time it didn't work I believe it gave the current time as the last visit.
 
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 7:14PM
I'll work on it.

The new cookie mechanism must be resetting the cookie more often than it should be.

cobalt60
Knuckle Dragger

2046 Posts
2/03
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 7:15PM
Now that he mentions it, when it says the last visit was the current time, it's saying there are no active topics, but it's working for me right now (and says my last visit was 24 minutes ago). It's been doing this off and on all day, or at least since lunchtime when I started goofing off.
cobalt60
Knuckle Dragger

2046 Posts
2/03
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 7:15PM
Cookies are delicious.
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 7:19PM
It's not remembering the last visit properly. It will capture the start time of your current visit but not the last visit from the cookie. It's got to be something simple.
cobalt60
Knuckle Dragger

2046 Posts
2/03
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 7:50PM
In retrospect, it always is. Programming can be humbling, though, for that very fact.
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 8:38PM
That's what I get for making these kinds of changes at 4 am powered by caffiene.
threesomebody
Official BlowBang Judge

Would you like my autograph?
2491 Posts
12/04
Posted - Jan 3 2007 : 9:05PM
Under Drew's avatar it says
5999
9/99

That's a lot of nines.

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 4 2007 : 12:18AM
Look for any cookies from forum.adultdvdtalk.com if you still have them and remove them. Those things are from when we tried out that other forum software a long time ago. They will cause a problem.
croy
Platinum Member

Discovry
4574 Posts
3/04
Posted - Jan 4 2007 : 5:27AM
He's still partying like its 1999.
ObiBong
Senior Member

1162 Posts
12/02
Posted - Jan 4 2007 : 3:45PM
Seems OK now. Thanks.
 
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 4 2007 : 4:31PM
It was that danglin cookie. Always a problem like a stranglin dingleberry.
willywilly
Member

Activated Member
662 Posts
2/05
Posted - Jan 4 2007 : 7:52PM
This thread reminds me - I've been meaning to ask you something.

Is there any way that we can 'reset' our last visit date/time to something of our choosing?

There have been a few occasions where it would have been nice to be able to do it. For example - Had to leave the computer and come back later, without having been over new messages.

Just wondering if we could edit a cookie or something.

Or - is it all handled on your end?


Thanks

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 4 2007 : 8:04PM
All on my end. Prior to my recent changes you could have edited the cookie. Good luck editing it now.
willywilly
Member

Activated Member
662 Posts
2/05
Posted - Jan 4 2007 : 8:13PM
Ok. Can't hurt to ask.

Thanks

cobalt60
Knuckle Dragger

2046 Posts
2/03
Posted - Jan 5 2007 : 7:13PM
Can the cookies be set to remember a based on active topics based on username rather than IP? I get different topics depending on where I'm goofing off from.

I should know this but I'm lazy and you might know off the top of your head.

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 5 2007 : 9:34PM
It's based on a cookie in the browser. IPs aren't part of it. I don't keep track of last visits in the database but it would be pretty easy to do so.
cobalt60
Knuckle Dragger

2046 Posts
2/03
Posted - Jan 5 2007 : 9:55PM
You could do something with long ttl session vars that would accomplish what I just said, though, right? I'm thinking through about six beers here so bear with me.
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 5 2007 : 10:02PM
I'd rather hit the database than keep sessions open longer. IIS is a bit stupid in how it handles memory allocation for sessions. Google's crawler hits our site many thousands of times per day. Each request ends up launching a new session in IIS which eats up memory. I suppose I could/should detect them and abandon the sessions for those requests but currently I don't. We currently use memory-based sessions but at some point will have to switch to a different method to support a web farm/web garden approach.
cobalt60
Knuckle Dragger

2046 Posts
2/03
Posted - Jan 5 2007 : 10:16PM
Web garden sounds so serene.

It sounds like you've had to deal with larger scalability issues than I ever would've wanted to put up with on IIS. Clustering, web server farms, high availability SQL Server, caching, the whole nine yards..I'm sorry. What a pain in the ass. Would you do it all over again?

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 5 2007 : 10:47PM
If php5 (or even 4) was available (and if MySQL supported stored procedures and triggers) when I first started this stuff we might have gone a different route. ASP isn't great but MS SQL Server is awesome.

It's really not that bad though. We're an outdated scripting language on relatively slow servers. It still chugs along fine with 350 - 400 active sessions for the moment. There's only two IIS worker processes servicing all of ADT. One for the forum and one for the main site. If things start to get too slow I'll convert some of our more popular pages to ISAPI code, not that .NET shit.

 
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Oblivious

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5965 Posts
1/03
Posted - Jan 21 2013 : 11:43AM
It works then it doesn't.
Getting a:
Error Processing your request
HTTP Error 500 - Server Error
At times today. Then I closed the browser (Safari) and it worked. Then it didn't. And closed and not working again.
This the link in the upper right corner.



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