Is there a problem with Metro Syle IE and MLF?

Using the metro style IE in windows 8.1

When I'm logged in as a user, clicking on a thread, when the page loads I will be logged out, if I refresh the page I will be logged in again, if I click back to the forum index I will be logged out again until I refresh the page

So using the forum you are constantly logged in and out :-(

This problem does not happen with the desktop version of IE

I just tried the desktop version again, it does not keep logging you out but if your on page (for example) page 5 of a category and you click on a thread, clicking on back to the forum index will not take you back to page 5 of said category but it will take you to a previous category you have viewed.

This problem is the same even on the mylittleforum website. Seems the cookies are not working right or something?

Hi Magma,

I cannot confirm your observation (tested IE 11.0.9600.17843 and SeaMonkey 2.33.1) with the installation of mlf here.

I selected [Design/Themes] and navigated to page 3. I opened this post. Clicking “Back to the forum index” takes me in both browsers to page 3 of the respective category. Therefore, it’s not an issue with cookies set by MLF.
Do you restrict cookies on your machine?

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It seems to always take me back to the previous category I was viewing or back to the all categories page 1.

So for example if I was viewing a thread on 'technics page 4' and then go to a thread on 'bugs page 3' clicking back to forum index will take me back to 'technics page 4'

I have not altered IE settings. I tried deleting cookies.

What settings do you have set in IE or what could I change to test further?

Safari, chrome and firefox work flawlessly for me.

Alfie I have listed exactly what I click on

go to the forum homepage then click exactly in the following order

(top right) technics
page 4
translation english into french
back to forum index
(top right) bugs
page 3
update from version 2.0 beta 26 to recent version
back to forum index (at this point I'm taken back to technics page 4)

Hi Magma,

OK, now I got it. Works as intended in SeaMonkey 2.33.1 (=FireFox 36.0). IE screws up exactly as you described.
IE in its default-settings (I never use it…). Strange. :confused:

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BEBA-Forum (v1.8β)

I've tried the desktop version and metro version of IE on a PC and a Surface RT and the MLF Script is broken on both machines :-( I normally use Chrome but quite a few people have emailed me about the problem with IE

Like I said the problem does not happen on Chrome, Firefox or Safari.

Is this likely to be fixed in the future?

Hi,

IE in its default-settings (I never use it…). Strange.

Maybe, it is a caching issues. The "Back to"-URI does not changed. Thus, the information about the "user-settings" are not a part of the URI. Maybe, the IE browser identify the URI as "known page" and loads a cached page instead of the right one.

/Micha

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Hi Micha,

Maybe, it is a caching issues. The "Back to"-URI does not changed. Thus, the information about the "user-settings" are not a part of the URI. Maybe, the IE browser identify the URI as "known page" and loads a cached page instead of the right one.

Sounds reasonable.
Maybe it was a little bit unfortunate by Alex to truncate the URI. If I select a page with a category it is still there, e.g.,
http://mylittleforum.net/forum/index.php?mode=index&category=3&page=4
… and after opening a post it’s gone:
http://mylittleforum.net/forum/index.php?mode=index

This behavior is different from previous versions of mlf. In my (1.8 beta) installation the complete URI is kept (and works in IE11):
http://forum.bebac.at/mix.php?page=2&category=13&descasc=DESC

Going back to the way mlf <2 behaved would be a major re-write (I guess). Plus: I expect some users complaining about “ugly” long URIs.

@Magma: Could you try to add

   <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

to the header of your template? May do the job in IE unless the size of the page is not too large. The workaround from Micro$oft’s KB #222064 looks weird. Not sure whether it is valid to add another head after the body…

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BEBA-Forum (v1.8β)

@Magma: Could you try to add
   <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
to the header of your template? May do the job in IE unless the size of the page is not too large. The workaround from Micro$oft’s KB #222064 looks weird. Not sure whether it is valid to add another head after the body…

I'm using the default theme, where do I put this code please?

themes - default - ?

Hi,

I'm using the default theme, where do I put this code please?

Add it to the themes/default/main.tpl file.

/Micha

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I added the code to the header but the problem still persists. Is there meant to be a forward slash in the code?

As for the Microsoft workaround I have not tried that as I don't really understand it :-(

Hi,

As for the Microsoft workaround I have not tried that as I don't really understand it

I tried it, but it didn't solve the problem.

/Micha

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Hi Alfie,

Sounds reasonable.

I saw this thread today and installed the Fiddler software to monitor the traffic. If I clicked to the "back to forum index" link, no network traffic was observed. Maybe a php-header can solve the problem. I found various of headers e.g.

header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");

Up to now, I don't understand, how the script is building the links and how to add more parameters. Here, an example:

$subnav_link = array('id' => $id, 'title'=>$link_title, 'name'=>$link_name);

and my suggestion?!?

$param = $id . "&amp;" . "foo=bar";
$subnav_link = array('id' => $param, 'title'=>$link_title, 'name'=>$link_name);

I select a page with a category it is still there, e.g.,
http://mylittleforum.net/forum/index.php?mode=index&category=3&page=4

This means, Alex looks for the $_REQUEST-Array and we only have to add the category (and page) to the index-link?

/Micha

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Hello Alfie

... The workaround from Micro$oft’s KB #222064 looks weird. Not sure whether it is valid to add another head after the body…

No, it's not. Apart from that, it is a workaround for outdated IE's, not IE 11.

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