[Annoying] Cookies to access forum from firefox win 10

[Jurassic Pork]

hello,
when i have the problem, i enter in the address bar of my webBrowser (Brave) :
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/      (force redirect to https)
after -> no cookies page

Friendly, J.P

[Curt Carpenter]

Lulu's hack above works for me on Ubuntu 32bit + Firefox.  So far anyway.

[Paolo]

Almost impossibile to access the forum. Then it suddenly starts to work just for few minute...than again broken

[Nitorami]

Cannot confirm this. For me, opening the forum in a second tab does the trick. It is a nuisance but works reliably.

[jamie]

I simply right click the tab and refresh! it seems to work.

Seems to me something to do with URL caches.

Jamie

[Paolo]

@jaime, confirm. jus now the screen with cookie request, but right click and go... thanks (here win 10, edge).

[jamie]

It must be that Alien ship that is heading our way, beaming too much RF towards the Star-Links!
Jamie

[LV]

For fun, entertainment, and learning, the Pascal programming language on Windows 11.    

[LeP]

Windows 11, FireFox (all of them updated).

The only way I have to enter in the forum is to link this address:

   https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php

There is no way to enter with only (cookie error):

   https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org

[paweld]

Android + Firefox: The home page load OK, but an error pops up when trying to open any thread. Deleting part of the URL on the error page to “https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org” solves the problem and the forum works normally in this browser session.
The problem appeared a few days ago.

The problem does not occur on LibreWolf (Firefox) + Windows 10.

[PeterBB]

For me the problem is intermittent.

I'm using Linux, and the problem is independent of the browser being used.
Usually I use Firefox, but when i am blocked this way,
other browsers such as Hv3, Tor, Chromium do not work either.
 
Right now, I can access the forums,
but 10 mins ago i was blocked!

[simone]

Unfortunately, the problem persists for me. I rarely access the forum. I'm taking advantage of one of these rare opportunities to report it.

Since this situatiin has been going on for at least 10 days, I would appreciate it if you could give me some update.

Many thanks to those who are working to resolve this issue.

[jamie]

I could be wrong and most likely I am but I think what you are finding is Cahced links in The Ether out there ,you need to refresh the browser one step back so it's forced to reload

At some point it should stop.

Jamie

[paweld]

The problem no longer exists for me: I checked yesterday evening and just a moment ago.
Thank you.

[LV]

It's just Sunday fun. 


# Lazarus Clipboard URL Extractor

This project is a **Lazarus / Free Pascal** application that monitors the system clipboard, extracts links (URLs) from copied text or HTML, cleans them from unwanted session/query parameters, and automatically opens the latest copied link in your default web browser.

## Features

- Monitors the system clipboard continuously (via `TTimer`).
- Supports both **plain text links** (e.g., copied from the browser address bar) and **HTML links** (copied from a webpage).
- Cleans forum links by removing:
  - `?PHPSESSID=...` or `&PHPSESSID=...`
  - `#new`
  - `/topicseen.html`
- Displays all collected links in a `TListView`.
- Automatically opens the **last added link** in the system default browser.
- Double-click on any link in the list to open it manually.

## How It Works

1. The app checks the clipboard every second (`TTimer.Interval = 1000` ms).
2. If new clipboard content is detected:
   - If the content contains HTML → extracts `<a href="...">` links.
   - Otherwise, treats it as plain text and extracts URLs with a regex.
3. Each link is cleaned using `CleanForumURL` to strip unwanted session IDs.
4. The new link is added to the list and automatically opened in the browser.

## Usage

1. Run the application in Lazarus.
2. Copy any link or webpage snippet that contains links.
3. The program will:
   - Add the link(s) to the list.
   - Automatically open the **latest copied link**.
4. You can also double-click a link in the list to open it again.

## Example

Copied link:

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,72193.0.html?PHPSESSID=uslbjdmsmtftir013b648h38h5#new


After cleaning:

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,72193.0.html


This cleaned link will appear in the list and open in your browser automatically.

## Requirements

- Lazarus IDE (tested with Lazarus 3.4 / Free Pascal 3.2.2).
- Windows (uses `Windows` unit for clipboard access).
- Internet browser (for opening links via `OpenURL`).