this has nothing to do with my update since i didn't change anything on antville.org (just in cvs). i'll have a look at this tomorrow.

When I am logged in (my weblog, or its subscriptions site...), and go offline then, and go online again, and I click refresh - I am not logged in any more. This must be quite new because going offline inbetween is my normal way of using antville.

Probably I have written the anonymous comment on elephäntville offline, not knowing that I have not been logged in any more when going online again.

so you're using a plain old modem? i'd guess that you have another IP after going offline and online again, and your cookie isn't valid for the new IP, which is in fact quite new.

first: as nex wrote above, you won't get logged in automatically after going offline if you're using an internet connection with dynamic ip-assignment (aka DHCP). this is because you're getting a different ip-address when logging in again, so all the cookies you got 'til then are invalid.

nevertheless, this shouldn't lead to "anonymous" comments. i had a look in the database, we have six of them (out of ~200.000), the first one happened long before the fix that lead to ip-bound cookies. the funny/distracting fact is that the user that is stored as a creator of a comment is the same user that is checked a few lines of code before if she's allowed to post ... if a user would not be logged in she would get redirected to login-form. the fact that this doesn't happen means that at the beginning of the request the user is logged in, but somehow it is turned to an anonymous account after all the security-checks.

@irene: since you managed to post a second anonymous comment yesterday, could you tell me in detail what you did or try to repeat that and post every single step here? this would be very helpful.

I have tried to make an anonymous posting here (written offline), but it has not worked. (I was guided to the login, and the comment disappeared.)

I have written the two anonymous comments after going offline (guarantee 95 %), but I cannnot tell you more because I have not done anything else. But I am sure that I have written a lot of comments offline with the same old modem (posted under my login-name Irene) - sometimes I go offline to write a long comment, or I am disturbed while writing, the connection breaks down etc. It always worked - until yesterday.

Go online - login - click comments - go offline - write a comment - go online - post the comment - not logged in any more (so the comment is posted without username). I do not think that something else has happened inbetween.

it happens only on sites where the comment form is on story.main and not story.comment. i hope this helps. maybey you should simply add an action url to the form.

will do it now (the tables themselves haven't changed, just the indexes)

Update: it's in CVS now

then i'm going to build it tomorrow. okay?

that would be cool.

yes, the workaround for bug 175 is to store only the alias of the frontSite in root. and bug 154 is fixed (sorry, i forgot to do that last night): root now has it's own long- and shortdateformat (defineable in setup), and formatTimestamp will use those if there's no site in path.

btw.: to enable the mirrored weblog on the frontpage i had to manually set path.site to the frontSite-weblog. don't know if this is valid usage of the path-array, but it works fine (although path will continue to just list HopObject root when written to response).

"skin" is definetly nicer that "useskin", i'll change that too.

btw.: any ideas how "anonymous" comments can happen? looks to me that during the evaluation of a request session.user gets null ... could use touch() before, but i'm not sure this will solve the problem.

In the beginning of antville there were some problems with Irene (I - capital) and irene.

the account lrene (with a lowercase L) is blocked, so posting using this account is impossible anyways.