Can't access the Forum from home

[GedB]

For over a week now I haven't been able to access the Forum from my home PC.

From work all is good.

From home I get 'Document contains no data'.

Anybody else experiencing problems?

[PB]

What URL? Some posts start with http://www.forums.purebasic.com and
others (which use another cookie) are http://forums.purebasic.com. That
may be causing the problem? It did for me when trying to reply to some
posts...

[GedB]

I'll do some investigating when I get home and report back.

[Truth_Seeker]

What URL? Some posts start with http://www.forums.purebasic.com and
others (which use another cookie) are http://forums.purebasic.com. That
may be causing the problem? It did for me when trying to reply to some
posts...

http://forums.purebasic.com is the only one that works for me, any way to change the cookie to use both?

[PB]

> http://forums.purebasic.com is the only one that works for me, any way to
> change the cookie to use both?

I don't think so... cookies are based on the URL, so I don't see how they can
be forced to use 2 different URLs. forums.purebasic.com is the official
URL, so I suggest you use that in future. That said, some threads here are
still linking to the other URL (without the "www." part) which means I can't
reply to them without "logging in" under that URL and creating another
cookie first.

[traumatic]

Sorry, I don't understand. What are you talking about?

You should be able to read the forums even without having a cookie (being
logged in). Without any cookies at all, I'm able to browse the forums with 'www',
without it and by using the IP. Everything works fine as expected.
Why should this be cookie-depended?

[PB]

> You should be able to read the forums even without having a cookie

That's right; you can. But if you're logged in under forums.purebasic.com
then you'll occasionally find a topic that links to forums.purebasic.com instead,
and when you go to such links, IE and Firefox think you're NOT logged in due
to no cookie existing for that link. Here's the FAQ link from a recent thread:

viewtopic.php?t=4876

If I click this, then IE and Firefox think I'm not logged in, even though I am
and the top-right of this screen says I'm logged in. Seems that all links
need the "www." prefix to know who you are... I'm guessing a search/replace
is needed on all topics since the last forum update?

[traumatic]

You're right PB, I thought it's about having problems to access the forums at all
(that's what the subject says).

[GedB]

I'm connecting to the server, but the I get a 'Document Contains No Data Error.'

Its the same for IE and Firefox.

I can ping the server.

The result is the same if I use IP instead of DNS.

I think the problem is with my PC. Both IE and Firefox raise an error every time they close. I'm going to reinstall windows.

[PB]

> I thought it's about having problems to access the forums at all

It is, but I just thought the problem may be connected to the cookie problem.
(Which is why I mentioned it). Just trying to get to the bottom of it.