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Title: Cookie error creating user
Post by: BlogTripper on May 16, 2020, 12:47:32 AM

The cause of the cookie error may be the hard line expiration date of

"17, January, 2038"

in your profile.pl of the forum.

Title: Re: Cookie error creating user
Post by: Little Mouse on May 16, 2020, 02:54:02 AM

May be but theymos should know it for a long time and if needed, theymos would fix it already. It is there for a while now as I can see a lot of thread from long ago with a google search. Theymos once replied here- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1916671.msg19024915#msg19024915

Title: Re: Cookie error creating user
Post by: BlogTripper on June 04, 2020, 01:48:31 AM

It was more of a statement than a question.

I'm who put date there.

In profile.pl

Code:


if ($username eq $user) {
			my $pword      = ${$uid.$user}{'password'};
			my $expiration = "Sunday, 17-Jan-2038 00:00:00 GMT";
			&UpdateCookie("write", $user, $pword, ${$uid.$user}{'session'}, "/", $expiration);
			&LoadUser($user);
		}

https://news.bitcoin.com/hackers-move-another-800k-in-btc-stolen-from-the-2016-bitfinex-breach/

Title: Re: Cookie error creating user
Post by: chimohe on June 21, 2020, 03:43:37 PM

BitcoinTalk.org

Service Announcement

ALL USERS WILL BE AFFECTED

AS OF

17, JANUARY, 2038

Your password to the forum will expire and it will no longer work. Creating a new password IS NOT AN OPTION.

The session Cookie will show that the date has passed and you will not be able to log in.

This announcement comes from a contributing coder of the Perl script profile (dot) pl of the bitcointalk.org forum

Sincerely

Timothy Firman
AKA BlogTripper
AKA CHIMOHE

www.boardmod.org/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1194789998/

Thank you AK108 AND Martin W for all your assistance over the years

Title: Re: Cookie error creating user
Post by: NeuroticFish on June 21, 2020, 07:40:51 PM

Quote from: chimohe on June 21, 2020, 03:43:37 PM

17, JANUARY, 2038

Your password to the forum will expire and it will no longer work. Creating a new password IS NOT AN OPTION.

I have high hopes that until that date we'll manage to migrate to new forum software. ;)
So you are worrying too much (for a non-problem).

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