Hi,
I’d rather ditch Zonealarm and use a better firewall.
Zonealarm is notorious for creating the most ridiculous problems with CMS and javascript sites.
sounds like a zonealarm issue, not a wordpress one.
Well i’m rather partial to zone alarm for some reason…don’t ask me why…*LOL*…It seems to work with everything else and just a reasonable amount of tweaking if t doesn’t so that’s why i just don’t understand this…and yes i know it sounds like a zone alarm issue…i just thought someone may have encntered it and found a fix 🙂
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Try enabling referrers for the site in ZA, and clean out your cache/unwanted cookies (including any related to your WP site, of course). Seems to have fixed this for me, in IE – though the problem was erratic, so hard to be sure.
Otherwise, shutting ZA down completely during login and restarting it straight after seems to allow logins without that palaver, for a few hours at least.
I don’t get this problem with WP 1.5.1, but do with 2.0.3 – which is at odds with this article:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Enable_Sending_Referrers
…but may be related to the code changed at that point.
Incidentally, folks, shifting blame doesn’t fix a problem. Neither ZA and WP appear to be doing anything wrong here – and firewalls that allow seamless CMS operation are not ‘better’ if they do so by being less secure. Several weeks of running my own tests last year convinced me that ZA has few peers among other software firewalls.
I had the same problem, the same liking for keeping ZA and the same reasoning as Hekai that we need a solution not an evasion of the problem. And there is one.
Go to this page of the ZA Support Forum:
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=inst&message.id=57558
Basically it involves letting ZA’s Privacy Advisor tell you what the problem is (in my case allowing 3rd party cookies) and changing the settings appropriately.
Worked for me, anyway.
Well, yup. That would also be the problem I’ve had with ZA Pro since I updated FF again (this would be twice now….)
I’m most likely going to go back to the free ZA version, which I understand doesn’t do this sort of stupidity.
