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Forum log in
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:51 am
by Jos Elkink
Lately, I often experience a problem with logging in onto the forum, and I wonder whether other people have similar experiences: often when I log in, it accepts my password, but the screen is still as if I am not logged in (e.g. with a log in button). But if I log in again, and then use the "posts since last visit" button, the list is empty - i.e. it does register it as me logging in, but I'm not actually logged in. Since I rely heavily on the "posts since last visit" system, this is quite annoying.
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:26 am
by DELGRAD
Odd seeing you asking questions.
I have experienced the same thing a couple of times here and
on most other boards I have ever been on.
What causes it? I haven't a clue, but someone around here should.
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:52 am
by Tiamo
This is what happens:
- your logon request has been received and processed by the server.
- the resulting index page has not been sent (and received) by the time the user stops waiting and requests another internet page.
- because the request has been processed, the time of your latest visit has been set to the time of this no-response-request.
- the next time you log on only the posts since that new time (your 'latest visit') will be 'new'.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:36 pm
by Jos Elkink
But I don't stop waiting and go to another page - this is happening when I log in, wait, and get back to the forum page, without clicking anywhere other than log in
...
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:55 pm
by Jos Elkink
DELGRAD wrote:Odd seeing you asking questions.
Well, just gauging how widespread this is or what may be causing it
... Besides, I'm a developer of Cantr, but not of phpBB
...
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:28 pm
by Doug R.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:44 pm
by Jos Elkink
Yes, it might be related - although again, it's not a hanging login ... the login *appears* to work fine, except that I don't end up logged in ...
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:57 pm
by Jos Elkink
Am I really the only one experiencing this? It's hugely bugging me, and I have still not been able to identify when it does and when it doesn't happen ...
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 6:26 pm
by Solfius
happens occasionally to me, not so much recently... and the lag has been better as well, so perhaps it's related to partial logins due to timeouts?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 6:49 pm
by Doug R.
It happened to me one or two days ago. The symptoms of my problem are slightly different than yours, but the effect is the same (loss of "since last post data"). My gut says it's caused by the same thing, but since we're in different places, using different machines and probably different operating systems, it manifests slightly differently.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:30 pm
by frenchfisher
I've had this problem, too, now that it's mentioned
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:14 am
by Zanthos
this has indeed happened to me before. i utilize the stay logged in feature, but every so often it logs me out, and when i log back in it just evaluates all the posts as read.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:50 am
by ceselb
Not really as you describe it. My browser forgets the cookie every so often and I have to log in again. Dunno, maybe it's just the cookie expiring, but it often happens at the same time as the wiki cookie expires. Are they having a shared namespace or something?
This is actually highly annoying to me, since there is no separation of domains for the forums and wiki. I'm having separate passwords from the beginning, to improve security, but now I just generate a new one each time a pass expires. This is something like every 3-4 weeks. Very secure setup, but a bit annoying.