The information for a user in the "Your Name" and "E-Mail" fields in the comment form for new stories sometimes persists from one visitor to another. For instance, a visitor will post an anonymous comment with "Your Name" as "Bill" and "E-Mail" as "bill@hotmail.com". The next visitor will visit that story and see the first visitors name and email in the comments form. I have not been able to replicate this but numerous users have verified it.

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killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

is it possible that the users sat behind a proxy and shared the same session?

magico’s picture

magico commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Session ids are created by PHP, so it would be very strange that PHP wouldn't have this issue corrected in a proxy/shared enviroment.

Anyway, nobody else complained about this.

penelopehead’s picture

penelopehead commented

I disallowed site caching and it corrected the problem. Although, I'd rather have caching on.