2718.us blog » COOKIEPATH http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Authenticating with WordPress 2.6 (part 3) http://2718.us/blog/2008/08/03/authenticating-with-wordpress-26-part-3/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/08/03/authenticating-with-wordpress-26-part-3/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:55:48 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=82 So, as a followup to parts 1 and 2, per WordPress Trac ticket #7001, WordPress 2.6 has split up the login cookies into three parts:

  • what was the one and only login cookie in 2.5 is now limited to /wp-admin
  • there’s a copy of that one that’s just limited to /wp-content/plugins, for backward compatibility with plugins
  • there’s a new cookie that is at COOKIEPATH (which can be defined in your config file), that is checked by calling 
    is_user_logged_in()

    (but perhaps this isn’t intended for secure authorization?)

So, it appears the way to go may be to change 

auth_redirect()

to

  1. if (!is_user_logged_in()) auth_redirect();

Maybe more to follow on this when I’ve more thoroughly explored it.

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