Kyle Kaliebe wrote: > Hello all, > > One of our users had Dspace open in two browsers on the same machine, > one in IE and the other in Firefox. She was logged in on the same > account. She then went to the last step of submission for an item. At > that point, she claims that her session jumped from Firefox to IE
Most browsers have a call-back mechanism to allow urls and filetypes not handled natively by a browser to be handled (this is how, for example flash and most audio formats work as well as links from formats from PDFs to HTML files). Somewhere along the line, a URL most have been opened that invoked this mechanism which would have resulted in the default browser being invoked to open that URL. The mechanism is very platform specific. In this case I'm guessing that the default browser was I.E.. I.E. had a separate session open (based on a separate login and separate session cookie) and the user ended up editing the same record simultaneously from two sessions and this caused badness. I'm not a microsoft windows person, but I suspect this could be avoided by ensuring that you have the same default browser for http and https and using that browser for all the editing actions (as opposed to the view and verification actions, which is what I'm assuming you're using the second browser for). How do you determine which is your default browser? Click on links in Word, OOo and PDF documents (opened by double clicking the files, rather than from within the browser). If they all go to the same browser, that's your default, if they don't, consult someone who understands application settings on your platform. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Te Pātaka Kōrero o Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
