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Davio
Development Team Member

Jamaica
12217 Posts

Posted - 14 January 2004 :  16:15:27  Show Profile
Title: Referer Mod
Version: 1.2 for Snitz Forums 3.4
Author: The Snitz Team
Last Update: June 25, 2004

Description:
Provides a workaround for forum users who have Norton Internet Security installed and want to use the Snitz Forums also.

It fixes the following problems NIS users experience:
- Unable to register because users can't pass the policy page.
- Error after updating thier profile.
- Getting a blank page after submitting a post instead of being redirected to the topic they were viewing.

Updates:
June 25
- Fixed problem when users open popup windows within the forum, the forum redirects to page in the popup window.

February 16
- Fixed problem with Email Validation turned off, user tries to login and gets redirected to register.asp.

January 26
- Fixed problem with Topic title not showing in title bar of browser when viewing a topic.

Installation Instructions:
Please read the readme.html file that comes with the mod.

Download
http://www.snitzbitz.com/mods/details.asp?Version=All&mid=172

Support:
If you have problems installing this MOD, post your questions in the Help: MOD Implementation forum.

If you have general questions about the mod (not questions about errors you get with it), you post them in this topic.

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Edited by - Davio on 25 June 2004 06:49:00

OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator

Austria
4969 Posts

Posted - 14 January 2004 :  16:44:33  Show Profile  Visit OneWayMule's Homepage  Send OneWayMule an ICQ Message
Thanks, that will finally make it easy to answer people screaming for help when using NIS...
Just curious, will this be included in the base code sometime?

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Useful stuff:
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taropatch
Average Member

USA
741 Posts

Posted - 14 January 2004 :  16:48:21  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by OneWayMule

Just curious, will this be included in the base code sometime?

From what I've read, I highly doubt that. But thanks Davio for making this mod. My feeling is that despite the user's NIS being at fault, I (as Admin of my forum) want to make it as painless as possible for new members to register and post.
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin

Portugal
26364 Posts

Posted - 14 January 2004 :  17:29:33  Show Profile  Send ruirib a Yahoo! Message
I guess the mod was created precisely to address one of the most common issues in the Help forums. Recognisedly this is a NIS issue and NIS 2004 even has a way to allow you to avoid it, but the simple addtion suggested by the mod can avoid a lot of user trouble and admin headaches.

I don't know whether this will make the base code, that's someone else's call, but as long as the code uses the referer info as it does now, it will be easy to provide a similar way around.


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Edited by - ruirib on 14 January 2004 17:30:07
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NorwegianViking
Junior Member

Denmark
119 Posts

Posted - 19 January 2004 :  03:53:40  Show Profile  Visit NorwegianViking's Homepage
Hello

Great MOD, Davio.
Easy to install. (Best MOD-installation documentation so far...)

IMHO, this should be part of standard Snitz code. Many people use NIS. I assume the code is adapted to other programs peculiarities, so why not for this issue that can prevent potentional members from joining a forum.

kind regards
NorwegianViking

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Davio
Development Team Member

Jamaica
12217 Posts

Posted - 19 January 2004 :  09:53:15  Show Profile
I should mention that if you have Gauravbhabu's HTTP_REFERER mod (topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=41148) to fix the registration problem with NIS users, this mod will still work. You don't have to uninstall it.

But you don't need Gauravbhabu's HTTP_REFERER mod. This mod replaces that mod.

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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator

Netherlands
2625 Posts

Posted - 26 January 2004 :  14:01:25  Show Profile  Visit MarcelG's Homepage
I found a 'problem' with this mod, at least on my site...
If I use this mod, the TOPIC Title is not shown anymore in the Title bar...it seems that the function GetNewTitle(strScriptName) stops working correctly.
Normally the TITLE section of a topic.asp would be build up like this : [ oxle - topictitle] [ forumtitle ], but when I use this mod all you'll see is [ oxle ] [ forumtitle ]

portfolio - linkshrinker - oxle - twitter
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin

Portugal
26364 Posts

Posted - 26 January 2004 :  14:27:07  Show Profile  Send ruirib a Yahoo! Message
I will have a look into it. Marcel, to deal with problems related to the mod, please post in the Help: Mod Implementation forum.


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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin

Portugal
26364 Posts

Posted - 26 January 2004 :  14:32:15  Show Profile  Send ruirib a Yahoo! Message
I know why it happened. I will talk to Davio and a fix will be posted soon.

Basically it has to do with the variable name strScriptName. The variable was already being used by Snitz, so a name change in the mode code's is required, while maintaining the Snitz variable as before the mod addition.


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Edited by - ruirib on 26 January 2004 14:39:01
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Davio
Development Team Member

Jamaica
12217 Posts

Posted - 26 January 2004 :  16:09:51  Show Profile
Mod file has been updated with the changes.

The strScriptName variable in the referer mod code has been renamed to strRefScriptName, so the original variable data for strScriptName won't be changed.

This was done in both inc_header.asp and inc_header_short.asp.

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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator

Netherlands
2625 Posts

Posted - 27 January 2004 :  01:18:16  Show Profile  Visit MarcelG's Homepage
Davio, thanks for the quick fix!

portfolio - linkshrinker - oxle - twitter
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NorwegianViking
Junior Member

Denmark
119 Posts

Posted - 27 January 2004 :  04:25:26  Show Profile  Visit NorwegianViking's Homepage
second that

kind regards
NorwegianViking

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richfed
Average Member

United States
999 Posts

Posted - 27 January 2004 :  05:04:42  Show Profile  Visit richfed's Homepage
I had this referer mod and didn't notice any problems ... till I read this thread, and, sure enough ...

So, I applied the new, fixed version. Received this error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0009'

Subscript out of range: 'ubound(...)'

/messageboard/inc_func_common.asp, line 2157

Am I the only one?


Ooops ... sorry ... got caught up in the moment. See here: http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=50891

Edited by - richfed on 28 January 2004 06:22:36
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin

Portugal
26364 Posts

Posted - 27 January 2004 :  05:56:14  Show Profile  Send ruirib a Yahoo! Message
Rich, if you have problems with the mod, please post in the Help: Mod Implementation error.


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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator

Denmark
2632 Posts

Posted - 29 January 2004 :  07:14:43  Show Profile
This is probably one of the most useful MODs in ages, I applied this to 3 different forums, and they all have more registrations than before...and I haven´t done anything extra for promotion.
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin

Portugal
26364 Posts

Posted - 29 January 2004 :  07:50:03  Show Profile  Send ruirib a Yahoo! Message
Well I guess that's why it was created :).


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