I had the same login bug myself when I got to work -- I thought at the time I must've somehow hit "log out" instead of "read new" (which really makes no sense at all, given both the page layout and the behavior, but hey, the coffee machine is broken).
Police procedure has changed since I was little.
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amych - Apr 23, 2003 6:24:20 am PDT #3887 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
DXMachina - Apr 23, 2003 6:24:44 am PDT #3888 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yup, it didn't remember me, either. Seems to be okay now, though.
Sue - Apr 23, 2003 6:27:20 am PDT #3889 of 10000
hip deep in pie
I had a similar login problem. I posted a message and when the post appeared, I was logged out. It seems okay now though.
DXMachina - Apr 23, 2003 6:30:19 am PDT #3890 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Okay, that was really weird.
When I posted the above, the system accepted the post, then logged me out and took me to the "guest" version of the page. When I hit "log in", Mozilla didn't automatically fill in my login name and password, which says to me that it's not the usual log in page.
I hit the back button a couple of times, until I was back at the original posting box I had used, and now the system recognizes me as DXMachina, and I'm able to post this message. WTF?
edit: It logged me out again, but hitting the back button logs me back in. Are we losing the session ID somehow when we post?
DXMachina - Apr 23, 2003 6:34:18 am PDT #3891 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Okay, hitting the back button to log you back in only works on the page you go back to. If you try to go elsewhere, like the Message Center, it logs you out again.
DXMachina - Apr 23, 2003 6:35:22 am PDT #3892 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Okay, just manually logged in. Now let's see what happens when I post.
DXMachina - Apr 23, 2003 6:36:21 am PDT #3893 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Huh, this time it kept me logged in.
Which means you must do the manual log in.
Cindy - Apr 23, 2003 6:37:26 am PDT #3894 of 10000
Nobody
When I got here this morning, I too was logged out. I didn't think anything of it, but it also didn't remember me. Other than having to input my password manually (oh! the horror!), I had no problems though, and it accepted my log in the first time.
I'm on ie 6, I do believe.
Tom Scola - Apr 23, 2003 6:44:27 am PDT #3895 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I don't know PHP very well, but from what I'm reading, PHP keeps its session data (i.e. cookies) in the directory session_save_path(). It looks like the files in session_save_path() are getting clobbered. Thanks, HostRocket.
PaulJ - Apr 23, 2003 7:19:10 am PDT #3896 of 10000
No. What seems to be going on is that the "Buffistas Home" link is pointing to "buffistas.org", while the session cookie in your browser was set by "www.buffistas.org" (and is only sent back to that site). If I hit the "Buffistas Home" link I get logged out, but if I type www.buffistas.org by hand it works.
t /back to lurking