I just noticed a problem with new user registration in Active users mod. If I have a new user he is shown as a guest until he gets to the registration page. After he completes his registration active users shows the new registered user's name, but it doesn't remove the guest user that he started with. So in this case you get two users with the same IP, the new user with the correct name and a guest that will remain in the Registration page until it times out.
I don't think using the IP would be a good strategy for handling this, since there is the possibility of IP changes between page calls (with AOL I believe) or some users showing the same IP (due to proxy use, for example). Probably inserting an AutoNumber ID field in the ActiveUsers table and using that field in the register.asp page, between different calls to detect user name changes could be a viable option.
select case chkUser(Request.Form("Name"), Request.Form("Password")) case 1, 2, 3, 4 Call DoCookies("false") strLoginStatus = 1 AUHandleLoging() case else strLoginStatus = 0 end select end if
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Posted - 28 May 2002 : 07:03:52
Nathan Bales