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DC_1908:
--- Quote from: HoustonCapsFan on Thursday February 01, 2018, 11:02:42 AM Eastern ---Hi all. I just found this board. One suggestion to keep the Penguin trolls away would be to change the captcha and force them to type "Ovechkin is the greatest hockey player of all time" every time they want to make a post.
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Welcome Houston! Don’t worry we got the Hens Trolld covered :devil:
One of the many reasons we started our own boards was the moderaoers protecting them.
So should any of them find there way here, they’ll be luckey if they’re only banned onsite. This is an uncensored, unoffilated, non-profit site, which takes their shield (aka Jags and Paid) away, so any of their attempts will amount only to our amusement 8)
alta:
and welcome to our dysfunctional family
ArJunaZ:
This is a post/support ticket I posted on the SMF forum. It's a bizarre problem and I am obviously not the first person to report an issue with using the word "from" in some longer posts. I found this exact issue going all the way back to 2009. i am just posting a copy here for reference.
AJ
I have been running a board using SMF 2.0.15 Since mid-December and it has worked great. I've noticed on rare occasion when I post a fairly long post, but not longer than the 40,000 char max I have set in settings, the server will throw up an "internal server error". The complete error is down below.
After careful troubleshooting I isolated the problem to the word "from". Regardless of where I place this word it causes the error. If I change any of the characters in the word "from", even a single letter to upper case, then there is no problem.
If I create a simple post using the "from" word only there is no problem. In longer posts it does not matter where in the post I place the word "from", it will cause the error.
Here is an example: The first post on this page has a few instance of the word "frum" in it. If I change ANY of those to "from" it will not post, but will throw the error.
URL - galactichub[dot]com/CapsForum/index.php/topic,76.0.html
I did a search on this problem and found the exact same problem from 2009 in this thread.
Internal Server Error By Using "from" Word in Post
« on: November 18, 2009, 05:16:27 AM »
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=348813.0;nowap
I do hope this can be resolved. This is sure to frustrate some users.
Below is the complete error. There is nothing in the log. Again, this is a very clean install.
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@aims-association.org to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Surreylily:
--- Quote from: ArJunaZ on Wednesday January 31, 2018, 07:13:23 PM Eastern ---Maybe you cleared your cookies or something, or used a different browser. I never have to login. I set it up to be really easy for all.
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I clear the cookies every time I do a scan, which is at least once a week. I've never had this problem before. :-(
ArJunaZ:
--- Quote from: Surreylily on Monday February 05, 2018, 08:32:01 PM Eastern ---
I clear the cookies every time I do a scan, which is at least once a week. I've never had this problem before. :-(
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I don't know of any website that will not log you out if you clear the cookies for that site. This includes the NHL Capitals forum. Without the cookies which store the information about who you are there is no way for a website to keep you logged in. The only other possible way for a site to connect you to a browser session is by your IP address, but since many people get assigned a new IP address every time they boot their PC no one uses this. Using an IP address to remember a user would also be very problematic for shared computers and Internet cafe's. Cookies are the only method to remember who you are. When you click on "Remember Me" when you login to a website you are basically telling it to track you via cookies that have a long expiration time, but if you delete cookies then these are gone and you will be logged out.
To get more technical: There is on our forum a session ID that is used to track users who do not click on "remember me". I set the limits on this to I think 4 hours to prevent people having to log back in during a typical GDT if they are not storing cookies. This is done on the server side and uses resources on the server, which is why you really don't want to make these last too long. Some sites, such as banking sites, shopping carts, etc. will use both session ID's and Cookies as this offers a little more security that someone won't hijack your session and execute transactions on your behalf. These ID's are long randomly generated keys that are often tied to your IP address for a short period of time. These are not practical to use to keep track of a user's login over long periods.
You will need to maintain the cookie for the forum if you want to remain logged in for extended periods of time. Even cookies expire, normally after 365 days if not renewed.
I hope this helps.
There is no way around this.
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