[consulting] Looking for consultant

[Rob Pierson]

I thought I had tried that before, but that did seem to solve the problem.
Thank you, Gerhard.

We are, btw, still looking for a consultant on our shoestring budget. Please
feel free to email me off-list if you are interested.

On 3/31/07, Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard at killesreiter.de> wrote:
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> Rob Pierson schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I help with the website for young professionals working in foreign
> policy (
> > www.ypfp.org). It's a non-partisan site for young and mostly dc-based
> think
> > tank folks, congressional staff, etc to discuss foreign policy.
> >
> > We've been running the site for about a year, and recently our web host
> (
> > opensourcehost.com) installed a module (suhosin) for php that they say
> has
> > corrupted the cookies of our users.
>
> I've no experience with suhosin, but if I were to make an educated
> guess, I'd think that they changed the mechanism by which php generates
> session IDs.
>
> If this guess is correct, then you'd need to empty the "sessions" table
> of your Drupal install. This will log all your users out and they will
> need to log in again. After that everythign should be back to normal.
>
> > I've tried moving the site to another
> > hosting company, reinstalled the database/cms, and unsuccessfully
> searched
> > for a solution. They say the only solution is to tell all of our users
> to
> > empty their cookies, which is not exactly what I would call a
> "solution".
>
> That is a solution and a quite appropriate one. With Drupal you might
> get away with simply emptying the sessions table as indicated above.
>
> The suhosin module is a php module that tries to make php more secure
> and you should thank your provider for installing it.
>
> Cheers,
>         Gerhard
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