Title: Browser-specific protected post issues
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Browser-specific protected post issues

 *  Resolved [jcbaxter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcbaxter/)
 * (@jcbaxter)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-specific-protected-post-issues/)
 * I recently started trying to use protected posts on my WordPress blog, and I 
   get what seems to be a hit-or-miss problem where the page reloads after entering
   the password, without actually unprotecting the post.
 * After a while of troubleshooting this on my own through researching these other
   problems, I’ve gotten a partial fix. Using the fix mentioned in another thread
   as shown below:
 * >  Editing wp-pass.php by replacing the following line,
   >  `setcookie('wp-postpass_'.
   > COOKIEHASH, $_POST['post_password'], time() + 864000);` with, `setcookie('wp-
   > postpass_' . COOKIEHASH, $_POST['post_password'], time() + 864000, COOKIEPATH,
   > preg_replace('|https?://(www)?|i', '', get_settings('home') ));`
 * this changes the cookie domain from “jamiebaxter.com” to “.blog.jamiebaxter.com”
 * This now allowed Safari to view the post. However, I’m exclusively using Firefox
   and Camino these days and neither of these can load the protected post. I even
   had a friend attempt to access this from Firefox on a PC (I use a Mac) with no
   luck. Further testing with cookies found that Firefox and Camino are receiving
   these cookies prior to the hotfix I used above, but no longer receive any cookie
   afterwards. Even if I tell Firefox and Camino to accept any and all cookies, 
   they never receive one.
 * This is a rather aggravating issue, and my lack of PHP experiences only complicates
   my troubleshooting. Does anyone have any thoughts of where to go from here to
   eliminate this browser-specific issue? I

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 *  Thread Starter [jcbaxter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcbaxter/)
 * (@jcbaxter)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-specific-protected-post-issues/#post-643360)
 * Nevermind, I tweaked the two address for the blog since they were weird to get
   to work the first time under a subdomain. It seems to work fine right now, and
   cookies are being passed correctly to the browser.

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 * [protected posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/protected-posts/)

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 * Last reply from: [jcbaxter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcbaxter/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-specific-protected-post-issues/#post-643360)
 * Status: resolved

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