[Zope-CMF] Portal Skin and cookie

[Gitte Wange]

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From: "Jens Vagelpohl" <jens@zope.com>
To: "Gitte Wange" <gitte@mmmanager.org>
Cc: "CMF mailinglist" <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Portal Skin and cookie


> gitte,
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> the skin selection is set as a cookie on the user's browser. so if =
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> check sets this cookie and then, in the same browser session, you come =
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> from another place you might not see the change you want because the=20
> cookie has not expired.
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> i suggest you add a second check wherever you added the check for HTTP =

> REFERER and explicitly set the skin cookie to use "Basic" if its value =
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> not "Basic" and the HTTP_REFERER is not your special site.
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> jens

Well at first this also seemed like the right solution to me but ..
When the user browse around on the site their HTTP_REFERER will be set =
to something else .. and then the skin will only be applied on the first =
page they visit ..

On the other hand .. it is most unlikely that the users will visit the =
site from the other site and "on their own" in the same session .. so =
perhaps it will work fine for the users ..=20

But thanks for the suggestion :-)

Gitte

> On Thursday, November 22, 2001, at 10:06 , Gitte Wange wrote:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm not an expert in cookies, but I need some help with a site of =
mine
> > ..
> > I have defined a new skin with another stylesheet for my site. I =
want to
> > use this skin everytime the visitor comes from one particular site =
(I
> > use the HTTP_REFERER variable to check this) ...
> >
> > I only want it to use this skin whenever the user comes from this
> > particular site - else it should use the normal site (which is =
Basic)
> > ...
> > But it looks like it sets this skin as the users default skin even =
when
> > they enter the site from somewhere else ...
> >
> > Can I prevent this in any way ?
> >
> > --
> > Gitte Wange Jensen
> >
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