Logging me out?
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toast boy

Original Poster:

1,242 posts

255 months

Saturday 16th October 2010
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I don't know if I'm just being stupid here and missing something really simple but PH keeps logging me out, never experienced this before and it's getting a bit irritating having to keep signing in? Feel free to tell me I'm an idiot if I'm just being dense smile

TotalControl

8,307 posts

227 months

Sunday 17th October 2010
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Happens to me but I noticed this is when my IP address changes if I log off the network.

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Monday 18th October 2010
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TotalControl said:
Happens to me but I noticed this is when my IP address changes if I log off the network.
That's an interesting observation, I don't see why it would do that, but it's worth investigating further.

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Monday 18th October 2010
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toast boy said:
I don't know if I'm just being stupid here and missing something really simple but PH keeps logging me out, never experienced this before and it's getting a bit irritating having to keep signing in? Feel free to tell me I'm an idiot if I'm just being dense smile
Try clearing your cookies and then logging back in, normally sorts it.

toast boy

Original Poster:

1,242 posts

255 months

Monday 18th October 2010
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Mr Will said:
toast boy said:
I don't know if I'm just being stupid here and missing something really simple but PH keeps logging me out, never experienced this before and it's getting a bit irritating having to keep signing in? Feel free to tell me I'm an idiot if I'm just being dense smile
Try clearing your cookies and then logging back in, normally sorts it.
Cheers, I'll give that a go and let you know if it fixes it.

TotalControl

8,307 posts

227 months

Monday 18th October 2010
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Mr Will said:
TotalControl said:
Happens to me but I noticed this is when my IP address changes if I log off the network.
That's an interesting observation, I don't see why it would do that, but it's worth investigating further.
It may just be my Poo home network (which is shared with one other guy), but it's an observation none the less. biggrin

Allanv

3,540 posts

215 months

Wednesday 20th October 2010
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I notice it logs me out sometimes when viewing someones profile page and I can recreate the issue maybe 7 out of 10 times.

weird.

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Thursday 21st October 2010
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Allanv said:
I notice it logs me out sometimes when viewing someones profile page and I can recreate the issue maybe 7 out of 10 times.

weird.
Thanks for the information, it's all very useful.

Odd that it would do it on just that one page, but I'll take a look and see if it is doing anything differently.

toast boy

Original Poster:

1,242 posts

255 months

Thursday 21st October 2010
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FYI, deleting the cookies seems to have worked for me up until now. Cheers!

TotalControl

8,307 posts

227 months

Thursday 21st October 2010
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Also, when some people link other threads in a thread and it's clicked on, it logs me out. If I close that opened thread without touching any of the others, I'm fine. If all others are closed and that is the only tab remaining, I have to log in again. confused

Allanv

3,540 posts

215 months

Friday 22nd October 2010
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TotalControl said:
Also, when some people link other threads in a thread and it's clicked on, it logs me out. If I close that opened thread without touching any of the others, I'm fine. If all others are closed and that is the only tab remaining, I have to log in again. confused
Interesting, I can recreate this as well. Also if I am reading say PH and have another tab open with say a news site then select again PH on that 2nd tab it will be logged out but the first page will also logout.

Similar to yours in a way but just me being a plank and not looking what I have already got open in my tabs.

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Friday 22nd October 2010
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TotalControl said:
Also, when some people link other threads in a thread and it's clicked on, it logs me out. If I close that opened thread without touching any of the others, I'm fine. If all others are closed and that is the only tab remaining, I have to log in again. confused
This is because (as far as your computer is concerned) PistonHeads.com, pistonheads.co.uk, www.pistonheads.com and www.pistonheads.co.uk are all completely separate websites with completely separate logged in/out statuses.

This means that if you are logged in on one of them, but follow a link that someone has posted which points to a different version, you will not be logged in on the different version.

If you edit the URL to match the one that you normally use then (as if by magic) you'll be logged in again.

Famous Graham

26,553 posts

254 months

Friday 22nd October 2010
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Mr Will said:
TotalControl said:
Also, when some people link other threads in a thread and it's clicked on, it logs me out. If I close that opened thread without touching any of the others, I'm fine. If all others are closed and that is the only tab remaining, I have to log in again. confused
This is because (as far as your computer is concerned) PistonHeads.com, pistonheads.co.uk, www.pistonheads.com and www.pistonheads.co.uk are all completely separate websites with completely separate logged in/out statuses.

This means that if you are logged in on one of them, but follow a link that someone has posted which points to a different version, you will not be logged in on the different version.

If you edit the URL to match the one that you normally use then (as if by magic) you'll be logged in again.
Can't you amend the cookie to be *.pistonheads.com ? And maybe write both the co.uk and com ones at the same time irrespective of which site you're on?

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Monday 25th October 2010
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Famous Graham said:
Mr Will said:
TotalControl said:
Also, when some people link other threads in a thread and it's clicked on, it logs me out. If I close that opened thread without touching any of the others, I'm fine. If all others are closed and that is the only tab remaining, I have to log in again. confused
This is because (as far as your computer is concerned) PistonHeads.com, pistonheads.co.uk, www.pistonheads.com and www.pistonheads.co.uk are all completely separate websites with completely separate logged in/out statuses.

This means that if you are logged in on one of them, but follow a link that someone has posted which points to a different version, you will not be logged in on the different version.

If you edit the URL to match the one that you normally use then (as if by magic) you'll be logged in again.
Can't you amend the cookie to be *.pistonheads.com ? And maybe write both the co.uk and com ones at the same time irrespective of which site you're on?
AFAIK, it is not possible to write cookies for domains other than the one you are currently on.