can not change theme from drop menu (MSIE)

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It seems this problem only happens when there are multiple
servers used by phpadmin . It works fine when only one
server is managed by phpadmin .. but on the installation
where i am using 7 different mysql servers the theme does
not change..

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It works fine for me also with 7 different servers :-). Are
you sure it depends on server count?

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What browser do you use? Are cookies accepted?

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I use IE 6 windows XP service pack 2

I have it accept all cookies and the program lets me change
the language fine.. just not the style .. I will try to debug
on my own later.. it is not really a high Priority and might just
be something on my side as the theme works fine on other
servers that I have installed this on..

This weekend (December 4th 5th) I will look at it more and let
you know what i find.. unless you find something before me..

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I have IE 6 too, and changing the style doesn't work for me
either.
It indeed works with Firefox....

I don't know how IE handles cookies from a server on the
LAN, because IE doesn't show the Icon a cookie was blocked,
but I assume it in fact was.

Bernhard

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Themes are stored only in cookies, so the problem might be
in this. Can you lower some security settings in MSIE to
accept all cookies?

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wow it works in Fire Fox..

As for IE, I set my secuirty settings to the lowest possible
and the theme drop menu still does not work.

My theory is it is with the name of the cookie. but I
am not sure because I still have not had time to look at it..
You do not have spaces or any strange characters in the
name of the cooke right??.. just alpha numeric with the first
letter being alpha ..

The strange thing is that it works in IE for me if I only have
one server setup for phpadmin.. if I have multiple it is not
working...

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The cookie for themes has name "pma_theme", if it causes any
trouble to MSIE, than it is really bad :-). It is same as
all others used, they're pma_something. Maybe there is some
limit for cookies from one server, can't it be a problem?

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Hi,

searching something on the web I stumbled over a user
contribution on:
http://de.php.net/manual/de/function.session-start.php

The user writes: Since I was using name based virtual hosting
for my testserver and we have different webshops for
different customers I used the syntax
webshop_customername.servername.nl as the domain-name.
The _ in the domain name seemed to be the problem. Internet
Explorer just denies setting the cookie on the client when
there is a special character (like an _ ) in the domain name.
For more information regarding this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;316112

The Microsoft-Site reads: Domains that use cookies must use
only alphanumeric characters ("-" or ".") in the domain name
and the server name. Internet Explorer blocks cookies from a
server if the server name contains other characters, such as
an underscore character ("_").

Like I said, my currents MyAdmin-Host is named:
http://myqdmin_2_6
That might be, why it doesn't work for me.

Bernhard

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Hmm, in this case, we can't do anything, maybe Microsoft
could read RFC...

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As it states in the Microsoft support document to which
bardware linked, it would appear that Microsoft has read
the RFCs, specifically RFCs 883 [1] and 952 [2], which state
that the period-delimited parts of a valid hostname are
composed solely of letters, numbers and hyphens. No other
characters are allowed. (It actually says the parts of the
hostname must each begin with a letter, but this restriction
was lifted in RFC 1123 [3]. It also says the hostname parts
may not begin or end with a hyphen.) I have never seen
any hostnames that have underscores in them. You should
not use such hostnames.

[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc883.html
[2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc952.html
[3] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1123.html

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There has to be some newer RFC, because now are valid also
unicode host names and the're not covered by the ones you
mentioned, but I'm unable to find it right now. Anyway this
is offtopic here ;-)

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Then, to be brief: Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) [1]
are supported by encoding their Unicode representations into
a form that still only uses letters, numbers and hyphens, by
means of an encoding scheme known as Punycode [2].

[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3490.html
[2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3492.html

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What's the relation between having an underscore in the
domain name, and having an underscore in the cookie name?

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None, it showed up, that MSIE doesn't accept cookies from
servers that have underscore in its name. The cookie name is
irrelevant.

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I see, Michal, but all our cookies are prefixed by "pma_",
so it's weird he had problem only with pma_theme ...

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He probably didn't use cookie auth, don't try to make
problem from bug that is half year closed as invalid and
nobody objected :-).