Developers of Sympa

[Fiona Dix <address@concealed>]

Hi

I'm new to Sympa and enjoying getting to know it. Sympa version is 
sympa-3.1b.10 on RH Linux system. I had some logging in/out 
difficulties, which i think I've fixed now.

I spent a while trying to figure out the problem that after logging 
out and trying to log in again I couldn't because I was 'already 
logged in as unknown'. This was with Netscape 4.7 and IE5 on a Mac. 
Even though the 'expires' date is set to a past date in cookielib.pm 
the 'unknown' cookie was still persisting for the session instead of 
being deleted. I found some stuff about the date syntax for the 
set-cookie header being quite strict, so i edited cookielib.pm 
changing

$expiration = 'expires=Tue,1-Jan-1970 10:10:10 GMT; ';

to

$expiration = 'expires=Tue, 01-Jan-1970 10:10:10 GMT; ';

and now the cookie is successfully deleted in both browsers. Hope 
this might help someone else- this may only be a Mac problem, if PC 
browsers are more forgiving.

best regards
Fiona