Did Not Know Where to Put This

Moved to Meta.

That happened to me when I first signed in her. The “Automatically log me in” thing worked to prevent the problem but for some reason I am still always hidden without asking it to do that. It works well enough for me.

It’s happening again.

Have you deleted cookies?

yes, read your post and when I clicked to post reply, it said I had to be logged in to respond and brought me back to the login page.

Well, chances are that they would not be harvesting them from me. lol

Pav,

I hit the automatically log me in button but alas I had to log in again. But I did manage to submit one post successfully.

What are “cookies”? :blush:

Cookies are small files that sites use to remember information specific to users. When you go to a site, the site will check to see if you have their cookies, and pull any information they need from them. They are used to automatically log you in when you visit ILP, and to show you the right style, posts-per-page, things like that.

If you’re using Chrome, you can clear your cookies as follows: go to the ILP homepage, click the “Not secure”* warning to the left of the URL, and select ‘Cookies’ at the bottom of the menu. Then select “ilovophilosophy.com” and click “Remove” at the bottom.

You’ll then need to log back in and that will create new cookies, so if the problem was with the cookies this should fix it.

Let me know if you have any trouble.

*“Not secure” means we don’t use end-to-end encryption, so don’t send e.g. bank details or things like that via PM.

Carleas,

Did what you suggested. Still not there yet. Seemed to be at first and then my little bubble burst.

Who in their right mind would do that?!

Meno, sorry. I did not notice this at first.
Most issues eventually appear to phase out I suppose but with someone/something working behind the scenes.

As for your last two lines, I have no idea about that. I wonder though. I would be quite curious to see where that would/will take its members. Knock Knock? Neil Gaiman opens door.

Hmmm… I guess that’s data. A few follow-ups:

Did you need to log back in after you deleted your cookies?
How many cookies does it say are in use on ILP? (mine says “5 in use”)
Do you have any ad or tracker blockers enabled (Ghostery, uBlock, etc.?), or are you using private/incognito mode?
Can you say more about what it means that it seemed to work?

No one, I would hope. I just wanted to clarify that that’s the kind of insecurity they’re talking about; “not secure” to me sounds a lot more threatening than it is in the context of a message board. It’s probably a good default, but it’s a bit of an overreaction here.

Carleas,

Yes.

11 removed them - they jumped right back in.
Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Yesterday, hung on for a wee wee bit then back to a SNAFU. :laughing:

As of today, no change. Being logged out. Let us see what happens now.

Took 3 tries to get the above in.

Have a good day, Carleas.

Thanks for helping me troubleshoot, Arcturus.

The cookies should be there, and 11 is right (turns out my ad blockers were blocking 6 of them, which tells me you don’t have an ad blocker :), but I wanted to make sure they were there initially to see if your browser was storing them at all. And they should repopulate after you removed them and logged back in, so that’s expected behavior as well.

I’ve made a couple changes to how sessions are validated that I hope will fix it, let me know if you still have the issue.

Test post.

Yeah this is becoming retarded. Like some 1996 internet phone modem connection shit with the MSN C.D. you get in the mail.

Okay. Check. So something is happening when I try to put an attachment in my post.

Discuss.

Keep getting logged out… deleted cookies, and using an iPad Autumn 2019.

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Can you be more specific?

I know this seems pedantic, but can you be more specific? I flushed the site sessions, which should force everyone to log in (possibly more than once), but that shouldn’t be an ongoing problem.

I just got logged out, again, when quoting this post to reply to… or is that because you recently reset something, just now?

The being logged off thing is perplexing.