Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.glorb.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: joel-garry@home.com (Joel Garry) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: What's up with tahiti.com - anyone else have problems? Date: 22 Apr 2004 16:28:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 47 Message-ID: <91884734.0404221528.6c178aab@posting.google.com> References: <91884734.0404211457.18ad6cda@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.112.255.226 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1082676500 12204 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2004 23:28:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:260017 Turkbear wrote in message news:... > joel-garry@home.com (Joel Garry) wrote: > > >Ed Stevens wrote in message news:... > >> Anyone else having problems with tahiti.oracle.com? I normally hit it > >> several times a day to look up an error msg or check a manual. On > >> Friday it asked me to log in (something it seems to do sporadically) > >> but wouldn't accept my userid and password. Even after requesting a > >> confirmation of my password, I copied and pasted the information from > >> the confirming e-mail, but still rejected. > >> > >> What's even more strange is that after following some links to find a > >> place to report the problem, I found myself at > >> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/contact/index.html, and that page had > >> a 'Welcome' with my e-mail address and a 'logout' link. It obviously > >> thought I was already logged in. When I followed links from there to > >> the OTN forums, (http://forums.oracle.com/forums/index.jsp?cat=48) the > >> Welcome said I was 'guest' and had a 'Login' link. > >> > >> I was able to read the OTN forums as a guest, there were several > >> others reporting the same problem. > > > >I've noticed a number of strangenesses among the various sites since > >they put out the new metalink, looks to me like they are trying to > >rollout various new pages and us users see the results of > >webcache-aphasia. I wonder if they are upgrading their SSO? > > > >jg > Since cookies are used to indicate your log in status, perhaps you accidentally ( or as part of your security routines) > deleted the cookie(s) used by Tahiti, etc or the site is failing to read some of your cookies. > (Somehow that sounds slightly dirty :-) ) Only if they're walnut cookies. :-) > > If Tahiti ( or metalink and otn) fails to properly add the cookie-reading routine to a new page, it will not recognize you. I do sometimes delete cookies, but the effect is capricious and when it happens it happens much more often than that. Simply following links in a roundabout manner through the various sites seems to be enough, and like Ed noticed, certain sites seem to get hiccups at times. jg -- @home.com is bogus http://www.multicians.org/cookie.html