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I hope Tom considers this to be fair and balanced. =)

#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jan 10, 2011

i didnt think you would actually do it

Heh, maybe it's overdone, but I thought it might give Tom a chuckle. =)

Absolutely brilliant. The perfect counterbalance to #11693. Cannot be improved upon.

For easy reference...
http://webpbn.com/index.cgi?id=11693

Bryan, i'm overwhelmed at your sense of center
keep up the great work

Like O'Reilly

Gator, Thanks for the demo. It never occurred to me that we could do that.

Hmm? I clicked it and it claimed on the new page that I wasn't logged in. Probably not the best version of link to work with; I oughta fix it in my other comment, on that puzzle, but I'm lazy ATM.

Bryan, if you click the "remember me" checkbox when you log in, links like this will work normally.

Technically, the "remember me" sets a cookie which then identifies you as you. Without the "remember me" cookie, your identity is transmitted with each url as an "SID" (or session ID) which is unique to your specific log-in session. Since links like this do not include your SID, you will arrive "logged out" without the cookie.

I do have the remember me set up but when I clicked the link I was not logged in

Note that the "remember me" is a checkbox on the login page. It is not the same as having your browser remember your password.

If it still doesn't work, I'd recommend logging out (using the logout button) and then logging in again, making sure the "remember me" checkbox is checked.

Another note: Even though all sessions are via cookies now, you might still arrive at the other side of this link "logged out".

That is because there are two domains for WebPBN: www.webpbn.com and webpbn.com. If you are logged into www.webpbn.com and click the link in #4, you will arrive "logged out" as that is a different domain.

Hm. I can add a line of code on the webserver that sets the URL to always be the same way, either with or without the initial www. That seems worth doing, so that the links that people post will work for other people. Between the two options, I'd pick webpbn.com -- without the www -- because it's shorter.

Most modern browsers add www. to typed URLs that don't include it. (The way to avoid it is to type in the https:// before the non-www URL)

Hm. I don't think that's true, actually.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/browser-automatically-adds-www-to-url

(The beginning bit about caches and malware is something they add to all their "what is wrong" posts)

Well, as a counterexample: if I type cnn.com into my browser, that takes me to cnn.com, not to www.cnn.com.

A lot of websites have instructions to the browser to add or remove the www in order to standardize URLs for the site. Like for example, if I type www.ebay.com, I am redirected to ebay.com, or if I type www.cnn.com, I end up redirected to cnn.com. That's the type of instruction that I'm thinking to add here on webpbn.

Wow...I was going to make a little comment...and I learned a lot reading the previous comments! Sigh, and here I thought I was looking at a white kitty winking in a blizzard.

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