Why do I have to log in every day ?

[Benni]

Hello PH techies,

Win 10 on my work computer, Win7 on my home pc, browsing with up-to-date FireFox.

Since a few weeks, I have to log in almost every time when I visit PH ( daily) ,

even though "remember me" is set.

Maybe my doctor is right and I really AM a nobody ?

[Benni]

Bump............EVERY single time, even though "remember me" is activated, and worked for years.

Win 10, FireFox in use.

[carreauchompeur]

Hmmm, do you have cookies disabled or something?

[Benni]

No, I "accept" everything, no cookie blocker, no ad blocker.

[Mr Happy]

It's because whoever wrote the federated login messed up big, and it's been like this forever.

The site creates an ASPSESSIONID cookie for a session, which is meant to be deleted at the end of the session, but modern browsers and session cookies don't get along and don't delete them when the session ends because of 'usability' (i.e. keeping your logged in session going). The way around this is for the developers to set a validity period and either expire the cookie or keep on resetting the validity period when it is successfully accessed.

To work around this, delete all of the ASPSESSIONIDxxxxxxx cookies from your browser, you'll probably need to log back in to PH but it will persist for approx a month or so, depending how many times you visit. Once you get to the log in every day phase, delete them again...

That's the only fix I've found for it, short of wiping all of the cookies when you close a browser, but that means you'll definitely need to keep logging in. At least using a password manager makes it slightly easier.