Getting signed in...and off

[Texas Wedge]

Hi guys and gals...

I'm having an issue that just started this week (maybe it was last week, not sure). When I start up my browser, I'm no longer signed in already like I used to be. When I try to sign in, it still has the login box for user and password after I sign in. I can post as subsequent screens show me logged in. However, I went to lunch today and when I came back I had to log in again. Did something change recently? I haven't changed or upgraded versions of the browsers I'm using (IE7 on XP and Firefox 2.0 on XP and 2000).

Any suggestions?

[pick-it-up]

Which link are you using to come here?

Try this (bookmark it):
http://golfrewound.com/forums/usercp.php

And be sure to check the "remember me" box.

[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by pick-it-up

Which link are you using to come here?

Try this (bookmark it):
http://golfrewound.com/forums/usercp.php

And be sure to check the "remember me" box.

For some reason that link works okay. The link I was using was just www.golfrewound.com/forums/. That one has worked fine since last February, but apparently something has changed. I guess I'll just have to change my bookmark. Thanks for the help.

[Leaguegolf]

Brooke recently performed some site maintenance and I suspect that was the problem with the log-in concern. Thanks for helping out Pick-it-up.

[pick-it-up]

I'm not sure why that link doesn't work. It works if you remove the 'www' though.

the 'usercp' is a better link anyway!

[deronsizemore]

This same thing has been happening to me for months now. I was just told it was my browser (although I know it's not).

I've got the "new posts" link bookmarked and I just go there when I visit because the golfrewound homepage never keeps me logged in. Even if I log in, the screen refreshes and I'm still not logged in. Has to be a bug with VBulletin.

[Brooke]

well, also check all cookie settings, that can also be a culprit for staying logged in. Also, some antivirus and antispyware software keeps cookies from being stored.

[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by Brooke

well, also check all cookie settings, that can also be a culprit for staying logged in. Also, some antivirus and antispyware software keeps cookies from being stored.

It just started having this problem and I'm not aware of any changes to my browser or spyware, but since it is my work computer...

It logged me out just from the time between my last post and this one... Oh well...

EDIT:
My Firefox is set for:
Accept cookies from sites and keep until they expire.

Then I looked at the cookies for golfrewound.com and they expired about 10 minutes ago. Did the upgrade change how long the cookies are stored on a pc? It looks like they expire a lot faster now than they used to. Maybe a default setting got used when the upgrade was recently done?

[deronsizemore]

Originally Posted by Brooke

well, also check all cookie settings, that can also be a culprit for staying logged in. Also, some antivirus and antispyware software keeps cookies from being stored.

Yeah, checked all cookie settings. Just reinstalled a fresh OS on my laptop today and still same thing happening. It was perfectly fine for the longest time when golfrewound came into existence and all of a sudden, one day out know where it started happening.

[Brooke]

Originally Posted by Texas Wedge

It just started having this problem and I'm not aware of any changes to my browser or spyware, but since it is my work computer...

It logged me out just from the time between my last post and this one... Oh well...

EDIT:
My Firefox is set for:
Accept cookies from sites and keep until they expire.

Then I looked at the cookies for golfrewound.com and they expired about 10 minutes ago. Did the upgrade change how long the cookies are stored on a pc? It looks like they expire a lot faster now than they used to. Maybe a default setting got used when the upgrade was recently done?

The cookie settings on the forums is set at default, which means they update daily. You two seem to be the only two having the issue, it might be firefox.

[pick-it-up]

I've had the issue for months as well....(also on FF)

Like I said only on the "www" sub domain.

[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by Brooke

The cookie settings on the forums is set at default, which means they update daily. You two seem to be the only two having the issue, it might be firefox.

And so off he went to try IE6 on windows 2000 to see if it would work better, remembering how it didn't work on IE7 with XP at home. Yet, dutifully, he tried to accomplish the task that would set him back on the road to posting ease and not send him spiraling into the darkness he had so narrowly escaped just months ago.

BUT ALAS!! It was not to be as he pulled up his page and entered his name and password and clicked remember me and then login. It redirected him and the page came up with the login information blank again on the top right hand corner just as if he'd never been there. Crushed, he felt as if he were being kicked out of the club, and so began his tyrannical reign of terror as something snapped inside him... something to which only a truly psychotic person could relate. The thoughts that went through his mind scared even him, for he knew he was no longer in control of his actions and somewhere down deep he knew he would be witnessing unspeakable cruelties in the near future...

But I digress...nope...didn't seem to work with IE either.

[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by pick-it-up

I've had the issue for months as well....(also on FF)

Like I said only on the "www" sub domain.

I figured what the heck...and I took out the www and it worked! I don't ask why...I just say THANK YOU!!!

[xnavyct]

Originally Posted by Brooke

The cookie settings on the forums is set at default, which means they update daily. You two seem to be the only two having the issue, it might be firefox.

I use Firefox on my home PC (the OS is XP), and have had no issues whatsoever.

[deronsizemore]

removing the www doesn't do it for me. If I navigate to golfrewound.com without the "www" and sign in using the fields on the top right, it tells me "thanks for logging in..." and then the screen refreshes and redirects me to the URL with the "www" in it and I'm not logged in after the redirect. But, once I click on a forum (say General Discussion) I then become logged in and am redirected yet again to the URL without the www.

[xnavyct]

Oh maybe you're talking about this, and I didn't understand -

When I first come to the site after being somewhere else, I am not logged in. But if I just click anywhere on the upper left hand site logo ("Coming Undone?"), the page refreshes, and I get the 'Welcome, xnavyct' message with last visited time and all that, my user CP, everything - don't have to login or anything. I just automatically click on the box as soon as I hit the site out of habit. Is this what you were talking about?

If it is, sorry I wasn't following you!

[deronsizemore]

Originally Posted by xnavyct

Oh maybe you're talking about this, and I didn't understand -

When I first come to the site after being somewhere else, I am not logged in. But if I just click anywhere on the upper left hand site logo ("Coming Undone?"), the page refreshes, and I get the 'Welcome, xnavyct' message with last visited time and all that, my user CP, everything - don't have to login or anything. I just automatically click on the box as soon as I hit the site out of habit. Is this what you were talking about?

If it is, sorry I wasn't following you!

Ummm yeah I think.

I log in and it usually doesn't do anything. Just tells me "thanks for logging in" and then takes me back out to the homepage at which time I'm not logged in (because I still see the message at the top right telling me to log in). If I click on a thread topic, it takes me to the thread and then at that point I'm logged in again.

[ForgedRbest]

Your browser is keeping the cookie from the last time you weren't logged in. Just hit the refresh button after you get to the site. Don't bother with logging in. Or delete all your cookies, and temp files, and the problem will go away, although you will have to loggin if you delete the cookies and temp files. On every site that you belong too.

[pick-it-up]

The problem persists for me in Safari too. Just FYI

[deronsizemore]

Originally Posted by ForgedRbest

Your browser is keeping the cookie from the last time you weren't logged in. Just hit the refresh button after you get to the site. Don't bother with logging in. Or delete all your cookies, and temp files, and the problem will go away, although you will have to loggin if you delete the cookies and temp files. On every site that you belong too.

Well, the thing is that I've done all of those things many times and today actually reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows XP on my laptop, so technically there was no "last time" as far as not being logged in. Also once I get to the site, clicking refresh does nothing.

[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by deronsizemore

removing the www doesn't do it for me. If I navigate to golfrewound.com without the "www" and sign in using the fields on the top right, it tells me "thanks for logging in..." and