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...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
Hello :)
I’m new to this forum and to Textpattern. I will probably bug everyone with silly questions such as the one I have now. So I apologize in advance.
Anyway, I use Mozilla Firefox for a variety of reasons, one of them being I can reject cookies selectively. I have cookies enabled for my domain – the one that is using Textpattern – but I still get this JavaScript alert:
“Browser cookies must be enabled to use Textpattern.”
Hopefully there is a simple solution and this is just me being a dunce. I did search around before I posted this but to no avail.
Thanks & cheers,
echo
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Re: ...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
It actually sounds like you have them blocked somehow. Have you checked through the “exceptions” list in “Tools/Options/Privacy/Cookies”? Double check just in case. Maybe it’s only accepting “session only” cookies. You should be able to see the settings for your domain in that list. I usually set FireFox to “allow all cookies” but then to “ask me first” at which point I can determine how I want to deal with them either permanantly or on a “per visit” basis.
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Re: ...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
I apologize for not responding sooner… I’ve been away from textpattern due to necessary work done on my other domains.
I tried deleting and re-adding both echoverse.org & www.echoverse.org to my exceptions list, but I still receive that aggravating alert box.
It is so perplexing because the ‘exceptions’ list in Firefox works everywhere else.
I love Textpattern, I love Firefox. Why, oh, why can’t they just get along?
Does anyone have suggestions for some other way to get rid of that alert?
If it means delving into the Textpattern code, I’m willing to do that!
Refusing to switch browsers or publishing system,
echo
P.S. Thanks for your help attempt, Stu :) (Is it okay if I call you Stu? I guess I already have and now it’s a moot point. Sorry, I’m feeling a bit silly…)
edit: oh, all right. for now I am using IE to login to txp. but it would be lovely if i could solve the Firefox problem!
Last edited by echo (2004-12-21 10:15:10)
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Re: ...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
I believe the problem is the selective cookie setting; TXP doesn’t actually try to set a cookie, but relies on JavaScript to get the value of the property navigator.cookieEnabled, which, IIRC, is false when using the selective setting.
Last edited by ubernostrum (2005-08-06 03:06:16)
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#5 2005-08-13 01:37:26
- Mary
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Re: ...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
I went to check this out. I don’t have this problem with Firefox (v.1.0.6), and I haven’t yet been able to replicate it. Blocking all cookies, Txp domain set as an exception, and I tried both for any, or just for session.
Textpattern uses JavaScript to check, but it does actually set a “dummy” session cookie.
Anyone still having this problem?
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Re: ...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
I think they fixed it in r731.
Stuart
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#7 2005-10-15 16:36:47
- marvincooper
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Re: ...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
I’m having this same problem, but only using XAMMP on my local machine – it’s all fine on Textdrive. I get the “Browser cookies must be enabled to use Textpattern” message whether using Firefox or IE6.
I’m on 4.01, downloaded not SVN’d.
Any ideas?
Last edited by marvincooper (2005-10-15 16:46:43)
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#8 2005-10-16 19:31:49
- marvincooper
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Re: ...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
Well, I commented out the javascript as per panimp’s suggestion above, and it’s worked for me too. But I haven’t a clue why XAMMP is unhappy with cookies – could it be a setting in php.ini? I played around with a couple of things to no effect…
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#9 2005-10-17 01:34:50
- zem
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Re: ...get rid of the JavaScript alert to use cookies?
But I haven’t a clue why XAMMP is unhappy with cookies
I’d guess it has something to do with the host name or path.
Alex
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