CUNY Academic Commons

(Actually, if using the .htaccess rule, it looks like your cookies-for-login plugin doesn't really do anything - is that right?)

That's not quite correct. Donncha's plugin does not attempt to load the the specialized image on the login page. My plugin adds the necessary code to load up the image on 'login_init'.

However, since CUNY uses a stylized version of wp-login.php, it appears that this image is loading twice. Once on the 'login_footer' hook and again on 'wp_footer'. I don't think this will cause any conflicts, but thought I'd mention this.

- The cookie is not being set, because the fake image is not being loaded.

This is the most likely culprit. This can occur if the user is blocking images with some form of plugin or if the user has disabled cookies from loading.

In Donncha's FAQ, he states that minifying plugins can interfere with the loading of the image and cookie. Not sure if this is the case with us.

Thanks for the thoughts, Ray.

My plugin adds the necessary code to load up the image on 'login_init'.

Ah, good call.

This can occur if the user is blocking images with some form of plugin or if the user has disabled cookies from loading.

Hm. I don't think we need to worry too much about users who have disabled cookies, because they're not going to be able to log into the Commons in any case (and I get the impression that the user who reported the issue didn't have a problem using the site in the past, which suggests that it's not a cookie restriction in itself). The image blocking thing is interesting - do you have any idea what kind of browser plugin would do this? Maybe some security thing? Do you think it would make any difference if we used the CSS-based cookie-setter rather than the IMG-based one?

This stuff is hard to guess about when we can't reproduce the issue :)