Auto refresh Q in IE5?

KdjaCL · 20-06-2003 05:41PM #1

How do i stop this?

I login into TMT and boards after a 4 day absence and have a million posts to read in wok but i may move away from PC having to work and all and when i come back all the new posts icons are gone.

Is there a client side way to stop that?

Or is it the websites auto refresh?

kdjac

seamus · 20-06-2003 06:02PM

I think it's serverside.

If you've been inactive (ie, not clicked any links on boards) for more than a certain amount of time (15 mins I think), it gets rid of the new posts.

It works like this (I would guess):

You click a link. Server checks to see if a cookie is set in your browser. If it is, performs authentication. Then reads a field in the DB, called something like 'last_visit_time', and stores it in a variable. Then updates said field in the DB with the current time.
Script then checks if the variable it stored, let's call it user_last_visit, is more than x minutes ago. If it is, it resets the session, and all posts are regarded as being 'new', if they have been updated since user_last_visit. If not, it attempts to read from the current session, and gets the info from there to determine which posts are 'new' to you.

That's just a guess.

It's server-side I think is the answer you wanted

KdjaCL · 20-06-2003 06:16PM

Thanks ,i wonder if theres a VB option to allow users an option to enable or disable that.

Me runs off to VB genius on TMT

kdjac

Auto refresh Q in IE5?

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