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    FA ACCOUNT NAME: Taasla
    USERS INVOLVED: TheHappyEmo
    LINKS/REFERENCE:
    (I don't think I need screenshots...)STEPS YOU TOOK: Refreshing a lot

    I went through other threads and saw that this problem has been addressed before, but it's been happening to me recently.

    I've been showing up in TheHappyEmo's account and he/she has told me that they have shown up in mine. I've gotten as far as being able to get into their message center, and they've attempted to post on my own userpage under my name as far as I can tell. I think they were trying to prove that they were in my account.

    Usually refreshing the page fixes it. There are some rare instances it does not.

    I'm not too sure if this is a router/ internet issue. From what I understood from the previous thread it would require TheHappyEmo to be logged in using our network? I'm in a remote location on a bad satellight internet signal. Doubtful they would be able to do that.

    If it may help, I have also noticed that FA is the only site that tends to use cached copies of pages. I usually have to refresh every page, even my message center, in order to get accurate information. My front page has been the same for ages. It's only FA, and no other sites I visit.
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    Blargh. I'm appearing in the account whatsisface now, too. I live in the middle of nowhere, Virginia, using a horrible satellight internet provider (Wild Blue).

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheHappyEmo View Post
    Blargh. I'm appearing in the account whatsisface now, too. I live in the middle of nowhere, Virginia, using a horrible satellight internet provider (Wild Blue).
    Wait, I use Wild Blue, too.

    Maybe that's got to do with it? But our towers are probably ages apart...

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    Well... Wild Blue, from what I understand, has like ONE satellite for all their users. So that might be part of the problem? Who knows, I could be lightyears from the right answer.

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    It's been happening to me as well. Except I show up in either "Vdrake" 's page or "SecurityWyrm's" page, I can get to my user page but when I go to check my messages, it takes me to either of those two again. I am on a satellite as well since I'm in Iraq currently. Perhaps satellites are troublesome for FA?
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    I have this issue too, and I appear as a LOT of different users, reloading the page works every time. I work for the ISP I use, and I found that FA's coders do not seem to take into account that a lot of ISPs use cache servers to speed up response time to frequently used sites, among other things. That being said I do not think it's caused by the ISP cache servers since the people I have been crossed with are not in New Zealand.

    I seriously think people need to look over their session management :P.

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    Now I'm having this problem as well. And showing up as Taasla, oddly enough. >.> I have satellite internet as well. I recently moved, and at my old house we had cable internet, and I didn't have this problem. So from what I can tell from other users, this is definitely a satellite problem. I don't remember my ISP off the top of my head, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhrixusGryph View Post
    I work for the ISP I use, and I found that FA's coders do not seem to take into account that a lot of ISPs use cache servers to speed up response time to frequently used sites, among other things.
    What makes you think that? I am well aware of transparent/direct caching proxy' existence, trust me. Even if I wasn't, allowing dynamic content to be cached is fundamentally wrong.

    The problem stems from ISPs hardware/software ignoring FA-supplied content TTL, namely the "Expires" header, ripping it out and replacing it with their own far-in-future header to save up on few bytes.

    This act of discarding original server supplied headers leads to dynamic pages being cached and given to the same/other users, making it look like:

    1. they are logged in as someone else (user A's cached page given back to user B)

    2. they are logged out (user A's cached page, when he was logged out, given back to user A when he is already logged in)

    3. the fave/watch they just made didn't go through (same as with logged in/out)

    4. privacy issues (it's possible to view someone else's private area of the website, if the proxy decides to give you their cached copy)


    Since you work for your ISP perhaps you should tell them that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by yak View Post
    What makes you think that? I am well aware of transparent/direct caching proxy' existence, trust me. Even if I wasn't, allowing dynamic content to be cached is fundamentally wrong.

    The problem stems from ISPs hardware/software ignoring FA-supplied content TTL, namely the "Expires" header, ripping it out and replacing it with their own far-in-future header to save up on few bytes.

    This act of discarding original server supplied headers leads to dynamic pages being cached and given to the same/other users, making it look like:

    1. they are logged in as someone else (user A's cached page given back to user B)

    2. they are logged out (user A's cached page, when he was logged out, given back to user A when he is already logged in)

    3. the fave/watch they just made didn't go through (same as with logged in/out)

    4. privacy issues (it's possible to view someone else's private area of the website, if the proxy decides to give you their cached copy)


    Since you work for your ISP perhaps you should tell them that.

    Okay have now done some testing here you go:

    1) FA's the only page identified with this problem, MSDN, DA etc never have these problems
    2) The problem appears on TelstraClear (NZ), Xtra (NZ), Verizon (US), Sprint (US), BBB(Sweden), Tiscali (various european countries). Yet not all users of these ISPs have the problem. Neither do I. I can go a few days without being logged in as another user but the it will happen again for a few weeks before stopping once more.
    3) Adding FA to the proxy ignore list, i.e. not caching it locally here doesn't solve the problem either. This has now been tested since my last update here, approx. In addition we have now tried;
    Opera 9.6
    Safari B4
    IE 6, 7, 8
    Firefox 3 (3.0.9 I think)
    PIE for WM 6.0, 6.1 and 6.5 beta.
    Opera Mini
    and finally the Symbian builtin just to make sure that it's not a browser issue either.

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    I have dsl and have never had this problem or the problem with needing to refresh pages.

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