Logging In

[Brad]

Maybe this has been discussed before. If so, my apologies. However, it seems everytime I go on, I have to re-log in even though I've marked the "remember me" box.

Any ideas why because it's a little annoying to have consistently do it.

[Dan Gould]

Hasn't been a problem for me, I would wonder if any setting has been changed in your browser to delete those cookies instead of keeping them so that you will be remembered.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This is a problem for me, too. It happens so often that I've constructed a theory about it and, in the last few days I've managed to avoid it happening.

I think what happens is, when you close down a board page you've finished with (and are therefore no longer connected to the board) the board sends your machine a cookie which might give a time you left. when you fire up another page, that cookie is read and matched to a record on Jim's server (or perhaps is deleted from your hard disk). If that check operation fails - no cookie or different time or whatever - you're required to log in again.

Now, I've also noticed that e-mails from the board notifying me that someone's posted on a subscribed thread often don't appear in my inbox until some significant time after they're timed as having been sent. So that seems to indicate that they're taking the scenic route, coming via Vladivostok, Canberra, Capetown, Tooting, Accra, Rio de Janiero and Kanazawa. Or that someone is sitting on them for a while, just to annoy me. And if the e-mails take some time, why wouldn't the cookies?

So, if you close an Organissimo page, then cut your connection to the web, perhaps by closing down altogether, the cookie can't get through, so you have to log on again. I've managed to avoid logging in again by making sure I don't cut my connection to the web for some little time after I finally leave the board.

MG

[JohnS]

I had this problem for weeks but oddly enough it seems to have resolved itself!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I had this problem for weeks but oddly enough it seems to have resolved itself!

Ah, so perhaps it's not my pet methodology

MG

[JohnS]

I had this problem for weeks but oddly enough it seems to have resolved itself!

Ah, so perhaps it's not my pet methodology

MG

Not quite by itself. I plugged in a router and deleted an old connection manager and modem software. How that changed things I have no idea. I'm very un-techy.

[Bluesnik]

it's weird but i can't log out. whenever i try i get prompted to log back in. what a nice irony!

and when i try to post i get an authentication mismatch, or something along those lines. so will i be perpetually logged in for all eternity? (emoticons don't work)

[Bluesnik]

oh, now i can post!

maybe it's because i used the fast reply function, and emoticons seem to be working after all

[Tom 1960]

I had to log onto the forum tonight for some reason. Good thing my computer remembered my password. I didn't have a clue.

[Chuck Nessa]

For the folks having problems: Which browser are you using?

[Jazzmoose]

It comes and goes for me, both on IE and Firefox.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Internet Explorer for me. And my superb methodology doesn't work! obo110x

MG

[paul secor]

Happened to me this morning - never before.

[rockefeller center]

I think what happens is, when you close down a board page you've finished with (and are therefore no longer connected to the board) the board sends your machine a cookie which might give a time you left.

The browser is not "connected to the board" because HTTP is a stateless protocol. When you navigate to an organissimo-page your browser sends an HTTP-request which the web server hopefully receives. Upon receiving a request the server generates an HTTP-object which may include a "Set Cookie"-header and is sent back to your browser (HTTP-response). If your browser allows a cookie to be set it will be stored on your computer and will be included on subsequent HTTP-request that are sent to that server (unless the cookie expired or was deleted).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#HTTP_session_state

http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I think what happens is, when you close down a board page you've finished with (and are therefore no longer connected to the board) the board sends your machine a cookie which might give a time you left.

The browser is not "connected to the board" because HTTP is a stateless protocol. When you navigate to an organissimo-page your browser sends an HTTP-request which the web server hopefully receives. Upon receiving a request the server generates an HTTP-object which may include a "Set Cookie"-header and is sent back to your browser (HTTP-response). If your browser allows a cookie to be set it will be stored on your computer and will be included on subsequent HTTP-request that are sent to that server (unless the cookie expired or was deleted).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#HTTP_session_state

http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

So, something's deleting our cookies or they're expiring?

MG

[7/4]

logging in on another machine, forgetting to log out and then using my machine causes problems.

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[rockefeller center]

I think what happens is, when you close down a board page you've finished with (and are therefore no longer connected to the board) the board sends your machine a cookie which might give a time you left.

The browser is not "connected to the board" because HTTP is a stateless protocol. When you navigate to an organissimo-page your browser sends an HTTP-request which the web server hopefully receives. Upon receiving a request the server generates an HTTP-object which may include a "Set Cookie"-header and is sent back to your browser (HTTP-response). If your browser allows a cookie to be set it will be stored on your computer and will be included on subsequent HTTP-request that are sent to that server (unless the cookie expired or was deleted).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#HTTP_session_state

http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

So, something's deleting our cookies or they're expiring?

MG

No, I didn't suggest that they're expiring (if this would be the case more users around here would have that problem). This was a general response to your HTTP-"theory".

Check your cookie settings.

Firefox:

Edit | Preferences | Privacy

Opera:

Preferences | Advanced | Cookies

IE6 (probably similar in IE7):

Tools | Internet Options | Privacy

Edited April 2, 2008 by rockefeller center

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I think what happens is, when you close down a board page you've finished with (and are therefore no longer connected to the board) the board sends your machine a cookie which might give a time you left.

The browser is not "connected to the board" because HTTP is a stateless protocol. When you navigate to an organissimo-page your browser sends an HTTP-request which the web server hopefully receives. Upon receiving a request the server generates an HTTP-object which may include a "Set Cookie"-header and is sent back to your browser (HTTP-response). If your browser allows a cookie to be set it will be stored on your computer and will be included on subsequent HTTP-request that are sent to that server (unless the cookie expired or was deleted).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#HTTP_session_state

http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

So, something's deleting our cookies or they're expiring?

MG

No, I didn't suggest that they're expiring (if this would be the case more users around here would have that problem). This was a general response to your HTTP-"theory".

Check your cookie settings.

Firefox:

Edit | Preferences | Privacy

Opera:

Preferences | Advanced | Cookies

IE6 (probably similar in IE7):

Tools | Internet Options | Privacy

I can't see how it can be a cookie setting because it happens at random - sometimes I have no problem, sometimes I have a problem.

MG

[Dan Gould]

Strangely enough, I was asked to log in this morning, first time in I don't know how long ...

[rockefeller center]

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=228742

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=234194

[Jazzmoose]

logging in on another machine, forgetting to log out and then using my machine causes problems.

You know, now that you mention it, that could be my problem. Hard to ignore the satellite internet at the library when you have dial up at home...

[Jim Alfredson]

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=228742

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=234194

Thanks!

I disabled the stronghold cookie (sounds tasty!) That should hopefully solve the issue.

[7/4]

logging in on another machine, forgetting to log out and then using my machine causes problems.

You know, now that you mention it, that could be my problem. Hard to ignore the satellite internet at the library when you have dial up at home...

Sometimes I give the board a quick check when I'm over at my parents, I forget to logout. This screws up logins on my home machine for more than this board.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Seems to be working... cross fingers.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Still working. Hope that's cracked it, Jim.

MG