"Ghost users" - not displayed in the who is online list

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"Ghost users" - not displayed in the who is online list

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Ticket: https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-14623

The f parameter in the URL appears to be only needed to account for users who are browsing a specific forum and show them in the who is online list of the specific forum.

Still, it is possible that there are users who don't use the f parameter, mainly because the canonical URL doesn't have it. So they won't appear in the who is online list.

Can anyone think of a solution?

To show those users and count the visitors without the f parameter, so as to finally remove it.

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Does anyone know where I would have to look in the code if I want to try to fix it?

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not precisely but you could start in viewtopic.php and work from there
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Does anyone know where exactly the "who is online" users are accounted for?

The viewtopic.php is chaotic so I thought I'd try my luck with a smaller chunk of code first...

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It is actually generated from includes/functions.php within the page_header function.
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