Logging in troubles again. [closed]

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Logging in troubles again. [closed]

Post by Team Piggy » 15 July 04 9:51 am

Anyone else?
Seems since the new logo went on, I have to re-eenter all my details every time I go to log in? :? Yes I am ticking the remember me box.
And I have cookies allowed.


We had this problem a while ago (that went away) I have changed nothing since then and suspect it has to do internally on the forum somewhere??

I havent had this problem happening since last time which must have been 4 months or more back?
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Post by embi » 15 July 04 12:54 pm

Might have something to do with piggys attracting flies?? :lol:

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Post by maccamob » 15 July 04 1:14 pm

Must be a SA thing. No probs here. :wink:

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Post by Team Piggy » 15 July 04 1:30 pm

Had the same a few months back, and that "mysteriously" just went away without changing anything. (i supsect it was internal in the forums).

Started again a couple of days ago, after having no problems for many months.

Sigh..

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Post by ideology » 16 July 04 4:36 pm

we changed the logo but didn't otherwise fiddle with the forum

we have the same problem with a laptop. it's on our list of things to look at

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Post by Team Piggy » 16 July 04 7:03 pm

Yes its odd. seems to come and go, I will try a few other machines tonight to test other units out.

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Post by The Ginger Loon » 16 July 04 7:28 pm

It helps me remember who I am... :wink:

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Post by Slider & Smurf » 16 July 04 8:52 pm

Seems to have fixed itself again... :?

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Post by dak's Emu Mob » 16 July 04 9:40 pm

I had this problem recently on my laptop only, but the problem was my M$ Win XP setup.
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My solution was to re-install XP. :cry:
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Post by ideology » 17 July 04 7:39 pm

we have a proposed solution but it may involve losing everyone's cookies and them having to re-enter their username/password details. before we attempt that, we'd like to see how big the problem is. if there are more than half a dozen people we will probably give it a go.

so please leave a note here if it is not logging you in automatically

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Post by Team Piggy » 17 July 04 8:27 pm

Me x 6 there you go.

Hopefully whatever you are proposing will work, then everyone will only need to do their details once !
I am doing them about 5 times a day currently. Enought to make you turn...
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Post by riblit » 17 July 04 9:57 pm

I have noticed that if I visit from an emailed link after I have logged out the "log me on automatically each visit" checkbox doesn't want to play if I check it. If I enter via the forum main page the checkbox does the right thing and I get straight back in next time.
I have also noted sometimes that if I try to log out of the forum it won't. It just loops and leaves me logged in.
I have leave the site, return and then log out. It usually takes two attempts.

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Post by Team Piggy » 18 July 04 12:21 pm

As a note, This machine is running XP pro, the other couple run win 2k, and no probs on there?
Though I went thru this same problem last time with win 2k and not XP??

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Post by ideology » 18 July 04 1:31 pm

piggy, are you using any privacy software or firewalls? our laptop was running privoxy which was turning all cookies into session cookies. once we told it that .geocaching.com.au was worthy of full cookies, the problem was solved.

riblit, what you said was very interesting. perhaps an old geocaching.com.au cookie is clobbering the new forum.geocaching.com.au cookie. were the email links the old url (geocaching.com.au/forum/abcd) or the new url (forum.geocaching.com.au/abcd)?
we've been able to reproduce the logged out behaviour. it seems to be be linked to autologin - as soon as you log out, it goes to the index page, sees you have autologin, and logs you back in again. we're not sure if this is a bug or a feature! to test our hypothesis, we've modified the forum cookie to see if we can make it clobber the other cookie. it might help piggy's problem - we'll see.

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Post by riblit » 18 July 04 11:08 pm

That works better for logging in from a Topic Reply Notification.
I had to enter user name and pw the first time, next time it went straight in..

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