[wp-hackers] Re: My plugin is losing authentication on one page.

[Glenn Ansley]

I changed my form's post action from an absolute URL to a relative and it
works now. Is this best practice?
I guess there's a gap somewhere in my internal knowledge bank about how
cookies work with POST data... and I was hoping it was server related.

Anyway, I enjoyed the conversation with myself. I hope someone somewhere
benefits at some point.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Glenn Ansley <glenn at glennansley.com>wrote:

> Okay,
> Checking the cookie information, I've found that on the above
> mentioned page I am missing the following cookies:
> * wp_test_cookie
> * wp_logged_in_
>
> My plugin is not using any functions that read or set cookies. Any ideas?
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Glenn Ansley <glenn at glennansley.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm in the middle of developing a plugin and I've run into an abnormal
> > situation I can't seem to resolve.
> > It seems that one of my functions somewhere is crippling the user
> > authentication system somehow... but only temporarily.
> >
> > - I have a page-template that handles several stages of a form. I'm
> > using POST for the method and the action is returning it to the same
> > script.
> > - You have to be logged in to view the script.
> > - When progressing from stage one of the form to stage two, I somehow
> > lose my authentication
> >  -- Form no longer becomes visible (have to be logged in to see it)
> >  -- "Log Out" links switch over to "Log in".
> > - Yet, if I manually type /wp-admin into the nav bar (or navigate to
> > anywhere else on site for that matter) I have access as the logged in
> > user ( including the opening stage of my form ).
> >
> > So it would appear that my plugin is temporarily killing the
> > authentication for that one page.
> > The interesting thing is that this is happening before
> > template-redirect filter is fired off, because I hooked a function to
> > that to print the user-id and it's not present at template-redirect.
> >
> > Any obvious functions , filters , hooks I might be crippling?
> > I am using the following hooks in my plugin: admin_print_scripts- ,
> > admin_head , wp_head , wp-enqueue_script , wp_print_scripts , and
> > admin_menu. I am also using register_activation_hook function
> >
> > Any ideas? I continue to look.
> >
>