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Amiga.org specific forums => Amiga.org Discussion and Site Feedback => Topic started by: Blomberg on August 21, 2004, 08:27:27 PM
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What's up with that? I usually get it when I try and open a page someone pasted on IRC or something.
Frankly, I don't understand why it needs to log me in, as afaik most AO pages are available to everyone (registered or not).
I wouldn't mind if it then took me to the page I wanted in the first place, but after "logging me in" it takes me to the front page, so i usually end up having to open the link twice to get where I want to go.
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You sure it's not a cookie thing or something? I think I've had that problem in the past, but haven't noticed it in recent times :shrug:.
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I don't *think* it is, I'm using the default cookie settings in Firefox (enabled - accept cookies normally) and it can't be a corrupted cookie, because I have the same problem under Windows and Mandrake (and the Mandrake one has been installed and uninstalled several times because of another problem i had).
What puzzles me is that it tries to log in just to view a forum page. Does that mean that unregistered users can't view pages via an external link at all?
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Could it be the actual "Store cookie for 1 year" option in your A.o account prefs?
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I have a similar problem.
I like to keep pages open so that I can follow the threads. However after a certain amount of time, hitting reload (or the same happens if I reopen my browser) makes it display some "automatically logging you in" message (or something like that), and it then redirects to the amiga.org front page. However, I have now lost the page I was viewing (I can't click back to take me to the original page)! So now it's very hard to follow any threads on amiga.org :(
I've tried changing the "Store cookie for 1 year" option, but it makes no difference either way.
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Try setting the 'keep cookie for 1 year' then logging out and back in. I've had this over at AmigaWorld and MorphZone before, both of whom have a similar setting.
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Holley wrote:
Try setting the 'keep cookie for 1 year' then logging out and back in. I've had this over at AmigaWorld and MorphZone before, both of whom have a similar setting.
I've tried playing a bit with that setting, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
I did notice, though, that if I log out of AO and close the window, it works fine. Also unticking the "remember me" box at the log in works.
But then I have to log in every time :o
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:-? On AW and MZ it just went away, though at both the "1 Year" lasts about a week, lol!
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Unticking the "Remember Me" box when logging in "fixes" the problem - but now I get logged out after a short amount of time (even though I haven't closed the browser in the meantime, and even though I have the "store cooking for 1 year" option set).
So I guess that (a) for whatever reason I'm getting logged out after a very short amount of time, and (b) the "Remember Me" option causes a redirection to the Amiga.org front page, somehow wiping the history of whatever page I was looking at.
I don't know if it is a browser problem - I'm using Opera 7.50.
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I don't think it's a browser problem, I've used quite a lot of Opera versions since 7.01 (I think) and it's never done that with me. I'm using 7.5 too.
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Guys,
It's a known bug, and there's nothing we can do about it. It is, in fact, one of the reasons we've considered getting rid of Xoops altogether.
Wayne
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Ah, I never knew that.
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Wayne wrote:
It's a known bug, and there's nothing we can do about it. It is, in fact, one of the reasons we've considered getting rid of Xoops altogether.
Ah, I must have missed that too, thanks for clearing that up.
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I made a few changes today, which would have either completely broken everything, or might have actually fixed the problem. Might not have even changed anything. Only the shadow knows.
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Well I can post comments in the gallery again, so I'm happy
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Wayne wrote:
I made a few changes today, which would have either completely broken everything, or might have actually fixed the problem. Might not have even changed anything. Only the shadow knows.
Cool. Looks like it's working, thanks :-)
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Your avatar looks like you're ralphing popcorn.. :-)