Problem with posting sometimes

515034s10ring · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject: Problem with posting sometimes

When i'm writing a post i normally click the preview button then get an "ERROR" page that pops up? And if i don't click and copy what i did write, it's normally lost when i click back to the web site......Is there a time limit upon which you have to write and post (because i take a long time typing Smile

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DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

515034s10ring wrote:

When i'm writing a post i normally click the preview button then get an "ERROR" page that pops up? And if i don't click and copy what i did write, it's normally lost when i click back to the web site......Is there a time limit upon which you have to write and post (because i take a long time typing Smile

)?

What happens is the forum software uses "session" variables, not cookies when you are making posts... and you are correct, they can time out. Its bitten me in the butt a couple times where I lost a big post. Session Vars are now the common way these types of software work because it allows data to be temporarily stored without the use of cookies which are slowly going away (and alot of people turn'em off).

So yea if you type up a huge long post copy it before you click submit incase of the dreaded ERROR (reminds me I need to fix that blue bar).

-DallanC

515034s10ring

Thanks!

........now if i can only remember what i wrote Sad