old layout showing up… maybe cookie related?

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Hi Ken, I’ve noticed something strange yesterday and today. This has happened a few times.

If I leave the site and then come back sometime later, the page I was viewing when I left is displayed instead of the main page. Also, the left menu is displaying with the old red balls, instead of the new “button style” links.

If I click links, they stay the red ball style even as I navigate to new pages. If I refresh, the red balls go away and the button style menu comes back.

I am using a Mac running OS 9.0.1, IE 5.1.4. A few weeks ago I changed my cookie settings (but I didn’t notice this bug until yesterday) — I now have the browser prompt me before accepting a cookie. I accept cookies for this site, though. (See the picture below.) And, I cleared out all cookies before changing this setting a few weeks ago… so I’d be surprised if this red ball style menu was sitting around on my computer somewhere.

Anyway, hope that all made sense…

-emily

ps ackkk! Tried the “photo gallery” feature for the first time and got this error message:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error ‘800a000b’

Division by zero

/photoGallery.asp, line 54

I was editing the message when I tried it… could that have anything to do with it?
cookies enabled

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(re: old layout showing up… maybe cookie related?) Emily:
Wow!!! I’ve never heard of such a thing …
I’m leaving for a flight in about an hour – so, I can’t tangle with it now. Maybe when I get to Europe.
Most likely, it’s related to the cache on your browser. I’d try clearing the cache to see what happens. I did just make a lot of changes in the Mac-related code, so maybe I broke something.
I’ll check back with you tomorrow (assuming I can find an internet cafe)
-Ken W

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(re: re: old layout showing up… maybe cookie related?)

Heh, sorry to spring it on you right before you left!

I wasn’t able to empty my cache (kept getting a message that I couldn’t delete items in use, even after I shut down IE), but I figured out a little bit more about the problem. In my favorites, I have this URL bookmarked:

http://www.sierragamers.com/MainFrame.asp 

When I start up IE and go to the favorite, I’m automatically redirected to http://www.sierragamers.com/newMainFrame.asp 

However, if I navigate away from the site and then back to it (using the favorite), I’m taken to MainFrame.asp and am not redirected. Once I shut down IE and start it again, the favorite redirects me to newMainFrame.asp

Clearly, I could fix this by updating my favorite (grin), but maybe it’s indicative of other problems with pages not refreshing/redirecting correctly? I have had this URL in my favorites for months, and only started having this problem this week.

-emily

ps I was mistaken when I said before that refreshing the browser got rid of the old layout. It doesn’t. But if I type http://www.sierragamers.com into the address bar, it brings me back to newMainFrame.asp

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(re: re: re: old layout showing up… maybe cookie related?)

A similar thing happened to me when I had newMainFrame.asp bookmarked.  I’m on a pc, and instead of the site popping up at all, an error message popped up.

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(re: re: re: re: old layout showing up… maybe cookie related?) A similar thing happened to me when I had newMainFrame.asp bookmarked. I’m on a pc, and instead of the site popping up at all, an error message popped up.
I’m at the airport waiting to catch a flight – I can’t believe it, but I powered on my laptop and the wireless card immediately had me surfing.
I’ll check into this on the plane. I am aware that the link that gets recorded when someone selects “add to favorites” is no good. I’ll look for a way to code around it.
-Ken W

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(re: old layout showing up… maybe cookie related?) just tried it on my PC (which has a favorite to the same URL) and, lo and behold, had the same problem. So it’s not just a Mac issue. I am using IE6, running WinXP.
-emily

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