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Changing Boards links

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  • 24-05-2009 3:14pm
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    Random
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    As it is if you're on the mobile theme and if someone posts a link to Boards it gets changed to m.boards.ie.

    What is annoying me a bit lately on my PC is if I'm on www.boards.ie and someone posts a Boards link to boards.ie. Is it possible to have these automatically changed to whatever one you happen to be browsing too?

    Small thing, but would create much happyness for me :)

    Thanks


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    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Random wrote: »
    As it is if you're on the mobile theme and if someone posts a link to Boards it gets changed to m.boards.ie.

    What is annoying me a bit lately on my PC is if I'm on www.boards.ie and someone posts a Boards link to boards.ie. Is it possible to have these automatically changed to whatever one you happen to be browsing too?

    Small thing, but would create much happyness for me :)

    Thanks
    I'm confused.

    Do many people send you m.boards links?


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    Sometimes if I login at http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055573530 and then click a link leading me to http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055573530 I get logged out until I come back to the http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055573530 link.

    Does that make more sense?


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    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Ah yes. Get you now. :)


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    Conor
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    The cookies issued by www.boards.ie are for .boards.ie so visiting a http://boards.ie/ link shouldn't log you out.

    I can have a look at changing the links the way you suggest, but unfortunately the mechanism that vBulletin exposes for that is a little... primitive, so I can't guarantee it will work. If it doesn't work, it can of course be fixed with some development time but if we have to go down that route you might have to wait a while as other, higher-priority tasks get dealt with.


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    Conor wrote: »
    The cookies issued by www.boards.ie are for .boards.ie so visiting a http://boards.ie/ link shouldn't log you out.

    I can have a look at changing the links the way you suggest, but unfortunately the mechanism that vBulletin exposes for that is a little... primitive, so I can't guarantee it will work. If it doesn't work, it can of course be fixed with some development time but if we have to go down that route you might have to wait a while as other, higher-priority tasks get dealt with.
    You're absolutely right.

    This is only a recent change isn't it? Before it used to log you out! It's just taken me so long to come and complain about it that you've fixed it in the meantime :)


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    Conor
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    Random wrote: »
    You're absolutely right.

    This is only a recent change isn't it? Before it used to log you out! It's just taken me so long to come and complain about it that you've fixed it in the meantime :)

    The cookies have always been for the whole .boards.ie domain IIRC.


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    Conor wrote: »
    The cookies have always been for the whole .boards.ie domain IIRC.
    They haven't always worked for me. Definitely not.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Random wrote: »
    They haven't always worked for me. Definitely not.

    That's probably a client-side issue or a server-side lost session (this happens occasionally) rather than a domain-based cookie issue though.


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    Happened all the time on different PCs...

    Anyways, you can lock this thread up now as my "problem" has been "fixed".

    Thanks


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