[NSRCA-discussion] Problems logging in to NSRCA Web Forum

[Keith Hoard]

Have you guys scoped out the muffler bearings yet?  Sometimes they get out
of spec and cause the exact problems you're describing. . .

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Robert L. Beaubien <rob at koolsoft.com>wrote:

> Understood.  One other suggestion that might be easiest of all.  Make
> www.nsrca.us a separate website that has only one page/function that
> redirects to the correct website.
>
> - Robert Beaubien
> - NSRCA District 7 Webmaster
> -
> "No trees were harmed in the sending of this message, however a large
> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced."
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Martin X.
> Moleski, SJ
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 9:52 AM
> To: General pattern discussion
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Problems logging in to NSRCA Web Forum
>
>  On 12/29/2010 11:44 AM, Robert L. Beaubien wrote:
>
> > It would probably help a lot to use relative file names so that it
> > wouldn't matter if they used www.nsrca.us or nsrca.us at all.
>
> You are, of course, correct.
>
> The exploit in December took advantage of .htaccess, where it is not
> hard to put in a rewrite rule.  My efforts to restore .htaccess as part
> of our system hit a dead end and I have not gone back to see whether I
> can revive it.
>
> > Typing www.{domain} is a habit I have when typing a url.
>
> Understood.  I saw anomalies for more than a year because I had a
> bookmark for nsrca.us with "www" in it.  That's how I learned that a
> cookie for "www.nsrca.us" does not substitute for one given for
> "nsrca.us".
>
> > Either that, or an automatic redirect when the wrong host header is
> > receive to the correct host header.  I'm not sure how you would go
> > about this using .PHP, but in .net it is simply a matter of using the
> > Session_Start method in the global.asax , check the host header and
> > redirect from there if necessary.
>
> There may be a way to fix it in PHP, but that would involve a "core
> hack" both in Joomla and in the Forum software.  The best place to catch
> it would be in a rewrite rule in .htaccess.
> I'm not going to have time to play with that any time soon ...
>
>                                Marty
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Keith Hoard
Collierville, TN
khoard at gmail.com
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