Login getting logged out

GrayMouser · 08-28-2009, 11:26 PM

OK, I show up, log in, write a reply, go to post, and get a "You can't post-you're not logged in" message.

I re-fill the blanks, click the log-in, go back to my message, re-post, and get a "90-second delay rule". It's even worse trying to edit- I have to log-in again every time, and sometimes the re-edit won't even show up.

Just coming here straight from posting in General Topics I got a "not logged in " message.

I use Firefox, and in "tools-options-privacy" page I've got it checked to "remember what I enter in forms" and in "tools-options-security" I've got the "remember passwords " box checked.

Any ideas?

GrayMouser · 08-28-2009, 11:28 PM

And, yes, every time I show up I click the "remember me", and it never does.

***Varnafindë*** · 08-28-2009, 11:31 PM

I post from several different computers, most of them use Firefox (some under Windows and others under Linux). One or two keep my login over several days, while others throw me out after ten minutes. I have no idea what causes the difference.

I've never been thrown out as fast as what you describe, though.

Aikanáro · 08-29-2009, 04:07 AM

I usually get logged out after about 15 minutes idle (which includes while writing longer posts) but I've never had it happen with the frequency you have, either.

Board weirdness?

**Mari** · 08-29-2009, 10:45 AM

Which version of Firefox are you using? I'm using 3.0.13 and I have no trouble whatsoever. It will remember me for ever if I left the screen open that long.
I hope it gets sorted out.

***Earniel*** · 08-30-2009, 05:09 PM

I occasionally have the same problem. I log in, click 'remember me', get on the Entmoot, and if I happen to type a long post, the computer tells me it has logged me out when I try to post or review it.

I'm not an expert, but I've always chalked it up as cookie quirks. I know I getted logged out when the cookies are cleared, which is regularly done on this computer.

***Jonathan*** · 09-01-2009, 02:00 PM

GrayMouser, it sounds like your Firefox might not be storing any cookies at all.
Go to Tools > Options > Privacy and make sure the box "Accept cookies from sites" is ticked.

08-28-2009, 11:26 PM	#1
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Login getting logged out OK, I show up, log in, write a reply, go to post, and get a "You can't post-you're not logged in" message. I re-fill the blanks, click the log-in, go back to my message, re-post, and get a "90-second delay rule". It's even worse trying to edit- I have to log-in again every time, and sometimes the re-edit won't even show up. Just coming here straight from posting in General Topics I got a "not logged in " message. I use Firefox, and in "tools-options-privacy" page I've got it checked to "remember what I enter in forms" and in "tools-options-security" I've got the "remember passwords " box checked. Any ideas? __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

08-28-2009, 11:28 PM	#2
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	And, yes, every time I show up I click the "remember me", and it never does. __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

08-28-2009, 11:31 PM	#3
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	I post from several different computers, most of them use Firefox (some under Windows and others under Linux). One or two keep my login over several days, while others throw me out after ten minutes. I have no idea what causes the difference. I've never been thrown out as fast as what you describe, though. __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

08-29-2009, 04:07 AM	#4
Aikanáro Chaotic Good Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva Posts: 827	I usually get logged out after about 15 minutes idle (which includes while writing longer posts) but I've never had it happen with the frequency you have, either. Board weirdness? __________________ Vanima i metta nauva, nan anda ar sarda nauva i mallë.

08-29-2009, 10:45 AM	#5
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Which version of Firefox are you using? I'm using 3.0.13 and I have no trouble whatsoever. It will remember me for ever if I left the screen open that long. I hope it gets sorted out. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

08-30-2009, 05:09 PM	#6
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I occasionally have the same problem. I log in, click 'remember me', get on the Entmoot, and if I happen to type a long post, the computer tells me it has logged me out when I try to post or review it. I'm not an expert, but I've always chalked it up as cookie quirks. I know I getted logged out when the cookies are cleared, which is regularly done on this computer. __________________ We are not things.

09-01-2009, 02:00 PM	#7
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	GrayMouser, it sounds like your Firefox might not be storing any cookies at all. Go to Tools > Options > Privacy and make sure the box "Accept cookies from sites" is ticked. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

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