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[Carl-NC]

Hello if possible latest forum threat addons will be great on top of the forum

If you mean "threads" instead of "threat" then the top bar includes "What's New", "Unread Topics", and "Last 24 Hrs".
If you meant "threat" then you will need to clarify, I don't know what that means.

[wtrk]

Hello if possible latest forum threat addons will be great on top of the forum

[Skippy]

Again:

[Skippy]

An experiment to try and upload an image attachment:

[Skippy]

Wierd that you got XP/Vista to work. Even VBulletin's website: https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/...orted_browsers .. states Firefox70 is needed for VB5 ( and I think that means the first VB5 release ), and I know Firefox "V52.9.0 ESR" is the most recent Vista-compatible release ( and XP supposedly works with V52, if you have all the 'service packs' installed ). That page is where it states Opera V27 is OK for VB5 ... but it doesn't seem to be, based on my V36 experience, it's going to get another trial, though. [br] ^^ I just tried a bbcode 'line break' there , wonder if it will work. [br] Folks do like to say Vista is rubbish, but one thing it exceeds XP at is crash-resistance, my previous XP laptop was terrible for blue-screening / freezing up / generally a PITA.

[Qiaozhi]

The unhelpful message is in fact: {"NodeId" : 409255} quite self-explanatory, you'll agree. For the benefit of anyone curious as to 'how to copy cookies': Both source and destination computers run Firefox. Use the 'Web Developer' tools, select 'Storage Inspector' . This shows the cookies in all their gory detail; name, expiry date, value, domain name etc. You can directly edit the values, by double-clicking on them, and you can cut'n'paste them, to a notepad .txt document, for example. The two cookies that matter are bbuserid, with a value of 6036 (that's me), and bbpassword, with a long string of Hex digits. Copying all that stuff and retyping/pasting into my own PC, making sure the expiry date is 12 months away, seemed to be all that was needed. I refreshed the webpage, and magically I was logged in. I don't know if it will last 12 months, time will tell.

Out of interest I fired up my ancient Windows XP desktop and tried logging in to Geotech using Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Here's the results:

Firefox: Logged in ok. Seems to be working fine.

Chrome: This site can't provide a secure connection. geotech1.com uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH.

Opera: This site can't provide a secure connection. Unsupported protocol. This is likely caused when the server needs RC4, which is no longer considered secure.

Skippy - maybe your problems are more related to Vista, which was always a piece of junk.

By the way, everything works just fine in Linux Mint with Firefox.

[Skippy]

Yeah, this is on Firefox 50, which is almost the most recent Vista-compatible release. I will try and import the Firefox cookies in their entirety into the Opera V36 I recently installed ( individual cookie tinkering doesn't seem to be an option on Opera : ( ) The cryptic message isn't important, the post gets submitted, regardless. This very 'lite' text entry box I'm stuck with for posting is lacking even the 'end of line' function. My prior post had several 'return' presses in it, breaking the sentences up nicely on my screen. When I submitted it, it just became one wall of text, as you can see. Pfft. Cracking the login hurdle is a modest step forwards, I can at least view the attachments to people's posts, for one thing. But is sure is irritating ... the previous Forum version worked pretty OK even without scripting turned on. I could log in, post, add attachments, view attachments , no js needed.

[Carl-NC]

I don't see anything in the vB forums on that message. Is this still an old version of Firefox?

[Skippy]

The unhelpful message is in fact: {"NodeId" : 409255} quite self-explanatory, you'll agree. For the benefit of anyone curious as to 'how to copy cookies': Both source and destination computers run Firefox. Use the 'Web Developer' tools, select 'Storage Inspector' . This shows the cookies in all their gory detail; name, expiry date, value, domain name etc. You can directly edit the values, by double-clicking on them, and you can cut'n'paste them, to a notepad .txt document, for example. The two cookies that matter are bbuserid, with a value of 6036 (that's me), and bbpassword, with a long string of Hex digits. Copying all that stuff and retyping/pasting into my own PC, making sure the expiry date is 12 months away, seemed to be all that was needed. I refreshed the webpage, and magically I was logged in. I don't know if it will last 12 months, time will tell.

[Skippy]

Sadly, it's not all that great. 90% of the 'buttons' are non-functional, hence why I can't edit my prior post, the edit/quote/flag/like buttons are there, my pointer changes to a hand when I hover over them, but they do nada when clicked on. Likewise, I can't add any attachments, or type fancy text stuff. It even breaks ( badly) when I submit the post, the entire screen goes blank apart from some unhelpful one-word message in quotes at the top-left of the screen. Clicking the back button thankfully returns me to the previous thread view. That's technological progress, eh.

[Skippy]

Look at me, all logged in and stuff!!! The dirty seedy underworld business of copying cookies from another computer to my one made this feat of computing possible.

[Skippy]

Skippy, I completely forgot to follow up on your problem. Tech support responded with this:

https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vbulletin-5-connect/support-issues-questions/4477783-user-can-t-login

Basically, make sure you are accessing with "https://www.geotech1.com/forums". I have a server-side redirect for http:// and https://geotech1.com/forums but I'm not sure they are working, when I use the latter it thinks I'm not logged in.

Carl, I tried making sure it was the https address, and cleared all Geotech1 cookies before visiting, it makes no difference.

It's disappointing that VBulletin tech support don't even know what version of the main browsers is needed for their software to run.

Looks like I'm going to have to try some of these minor browsers ... Blue Moon ? KaMeleon?

Unless I can do something smart, like copy cookies from one computer to another. Sounds like hard work, with a high chance of failure, but if the 'remember-me' cookie works, I probably won't have to touch the login for a year.
Guess some reading-up is called for.

[dbanner]

Use to be easy searching through "attachments" for a specific pdf which I knew was somewhere in the thread.

[dbanner]

How to view just the "attachments" from any given thread, or is that feature bye bye.

[Carl-NC]

On the old forum, if you searched, for example, "delta puse" the results came also with the number of pages of that thread. And that's how you know it is the main thread for that project. Carl, it is possible to add pagination near the thread name in search window? (ex: 1,2,3...70,71,72) The same i see for "what's new" or "tech forum", looks like for all the pages. thanks

It's the same problem Lucifer mentioned in post #70. I asked tech support and, no, that feature is not in vB5. I've asked that it be revived.