Hi and thanks to you both.
I think that Wm Mussatto nailed it. I will install the Cookie Warning and Login Check plugins in the next few days and also see if there's a Firefox setting for not sharing instances. I'll report back what I find. Kind regards Niclas > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:51:27 -0700 > From: mussatto@xxxxxxx > To: paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Session problem with Firefox but not IE > > Off-list: OK didn't notice that, sorry. > On Mon, March 11, 2013 09:47, Paul Lesniewski wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Wm Mussatto <mussatto@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, March 10, 2013 09:35, Paul Lesniewski wrote: > >>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Niclas Arndt <niclas_arndt@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I am running 1.4.21 on an old openSUSE and I have a problem that I > >>>> assume is > >>>> session-related. > >>>> > >>>> IE 9 doesn't suffer from it - only Firefox 19 (and previous versions). > >>>> I > >>>> haven't tried other browsers. > >>>> > >>>> So long as I am only logged into Squirrelmail and not doing anything > >>>> else, > >>>> everything is fine. > >>>> > >>>> If I open another Firefox window and login to for example Hotmail (or > >>>> another Squirrelmail account), I get kicked out from the original > >>>> Squirrelmail account with this message: > >>>> > >>>> ERROR > >>>> You must be logged in to access this page. > >>>> > >>>> If I log into my Squirrelmail account, everything works (until I login > >>>> to > >>>> e.g. Hotmail again...). > >>>> > >>>> As I said previously, IE9 (and previous versions) haven't suffered > >>>> from > >>>> this > >>>> - only Firefox. > >>>> > >>>> As far as I know, there is no exotic plugin (or similar) that might > >>>> disturb > >>>> - quite "vanilla" Firefox. > >>>> > >>>> session.use_cookies reports as "YES" and session.save_path looks > >>>> right. > >>> > >>> If it works in IE (and because no one else has this issue), it's > >>> probably something in your Firefox setup, or your web server... not > >>> likely anything that SquirrelMail is responsible for. You can install > >>> the Cookie Warning plugin to get more accurate error reporting if the > >>> problem is your cookies are being wiped out (but might be easier and > >>> more informative to watch the cookies in FF yourself manually, where > >>> you can also check the expiration info, etc.) > >> > >> Firefox shares cookies between all open instances whereas Internet > >> Explorer does not. When you opened the second SM session in FF the new > >> cookies overwrote the old cookies. I had a client bring this to my > >> attention years ago. Hope this helps. > > > > The OP claims that opening *any* other window (URI) causes this issue. > > If so, it's not the same issue you are thinking of. Or perhaps the > > OP didn't do very good testing. If that's the case, the problem can > > be addressed by using the Login Check plugin. > > > > -- > > Paul Lesniewski > > SquirrelMail Team > > Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! > > http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester > > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the > > endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to > > tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > > ----- > > squirrelmail-users mailing list > > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > > List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the > endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to > tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > ----- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users |
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