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well because of the random func on the end, is this even possible? Will a new session be generated once I navigated to the forum regardless of what I insert into the table and set the cookie to?

It appears that after creating the above data, that navigating to the forum creates a new session for a non-logged in user, and overwrites the cookie for the logged in user (or rather, user attempting to log in externally). Therefore, am I safe in assuming that this isnt possible?

--------------- Added at 16:20 ---------------

Originally Posted by Analogpoint

Why don't you do this.

1. Copy the login form HTML from the navbar template.
2. Replace all the variables ($vbphrase etc), with plain text
3. Add the absolute url to /clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js to make sure it gets included.
4. Add the absolute url to the form's action 'login.php?do=login'

You're done, it'll log you in and redirect you back to where you were.

doesnt work. heres my code (found at the bottom of my website's login routiene):

PHP Code:

echo '<form action="http://forum.mysite.com/login.php?do=login" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, 0)">
                            <script type="text/javascript" src="http://forum.mysite.com/clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js?v=368"></script>
                            <input type="submit" value="Log in" accesskey="s" />
                            <input type="hidden" name="s" value="1" />
                            <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_password" value="' . $user_txtpassword . '" />
                            <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_username" value="' . $user_name . '" />
                            <input type="hidden" name="cookieuser" value="1" />
                            <input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />        
                            <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
                            <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
                            </form>'; 


runs through it, does nothing.

has anyone here gotten external login to work properly?