Can't Reply to forum posts?
I was having this problem for a couple of days. With IE 7 (on Windows Vista), I was able to browse the forums but on hitting Reply I would get a generic error page. For a while I thought this might be due to some stale networking state, since I had not rebooted my computer for a while. Strangely, though, I didn't have the problem with Firefox.
Today I rebooted, and the problem persisted. So I set out to find out what was wrong. With Fiddler I saw IE getting a bunch of circular redirects (302 code) and eventually just giving up. How I fixed this: logged out and back in. There must have been some corruption in the cookies used for persistent log-in. Maybe this will help someone else hitting the same problem.
I have seen this error also, and I found out going to
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN and click on the WPF forum link again would solve this problem, probably the same effect as deleting the cookie, but faster.
Oh, eah. The problem is related to infinity redirects to select your country in Passport profile. Huh, the workaround found is just completely log of your profile, then enter the forum and try to replay something. You'll be redirected (only once) to country selection, then you can login and work normally.
Too smart those who develop the forum engine 
Damn.. I'm sick of cleaning all history for MS sites in order to be able to post on forums..
I'm using IE 7. In a few days/weeks after cleaning IE history it refuses to show AddPost page....
Firefox which I'm using by default never let me post.
How can I fix this?
Thanks
 Chango V. - MSFT wrote: |
| I was assured the corrupt cookies issue was finally resolved. Browsing the forum and replying to posts should no longer be a problem. | |
No dice - I'm still unable to even browse the forum using Firefox even with cookies cleared. It just redirects infinitely.
It doesn't even work right in IE half the time. Random page drops, random logouts, randomly decides to eliminate quotes - seriously this is the worst forum software I have ever seen.
