Can't log in!
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NiceCupOfTea

Original Poster:

25,539 posts

275 months

Sunday 18th November 2007
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Help!

This has been going on for the last few days.

For some reason sometimes I go to post and it tells me to log in, despite, on the same page saying "Hello, NiceCupOfTea". I dutifully log in, it tells me I have been successful, and then dumps me on the main page. Any attempt to post asks me to log in again. I have tried logging out and then in, I have even created a new account, logged into that, and then logged out before trying again. The only thing that helps sometimes is wiping the cache, but why does this happen and how can I stop it? How can it on the one hand know who I am and tell me I am logged in (and sometimes show "My Stuff&quotwink but then tell me I am not logged in?

confusedbanghead so frustrating!

NiceCupOfTea

Original Poster:

25,539 posts

275 months

Sunday 18th November 2007
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Argh banghead

Just happened again:



Note my name at the top (ie, logged in!) and the request to login in underneath!

By the time I had got the bloody thing working the topic had been closed rolleyes. And then I had to log in again 30 seconds later to post on this censored topic again!

Is somebody trying to tell me something!?

David Godfrey

3,857 posts

248 months

Sunday 18th November 2007
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You could try clearing your cookies, seems your using firefox so:

How to delete cookies in Firefox
To delete cookies Firefox 2.0
1. Select "Tools"
2. Select "Options".
3. Select "Privacy".
4. In Private area click "Clear Now".
5. In "Clear Private Data" window put the check mark for "Cookies" and click "Clear Private Data Now".
6. Click OK.

To delete cookies Firefox 1.x
1. Select "Tools"
2. Select "Options".
3. Select "Privacy".
4. Open "Cookies" tab and click "Clear Cookies Now".
5. Click OK.

NiceCupOfTea

Original Poster:

25,539 posts

275 months

Monday 19th November 2007
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Clearing the cookies has helped for now ta - but why does it happen? confused

Really weird that it knows who you are, and that you're logged in - yet it is asking you to log in again! silly

Vanya

2,058 posts

268 months

Monday 19th November 2007
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David Godfrey said:
You could try clearing your cookies, seems your using firefox so:

How to delete cookies in Firefox
To delete cookies Firefox 2.0
1. Select "Tools"
2. Select "Options".
3. Select "Privacy".
4. In Private area click "Clear Now".
5. In "Clear Private Data" window put the check mark for "Cookies" and click "Clear Private Data Now".
6. Click OK.

To delete cookies Firefox 1.x
1. Select "Tools"
2. Select "Options".
3. Select "Privacy".
4. Open "Cookies" tab and click "Clear Cookies Now".
5. Click OK.

FWIW I had exactly the same "glitch" as NCOT last week, with I.E. 7!

Even though I was logged in with my handle appearing at the top of the page I re-logged in, problem went away.

Condition hasn't been repeated.

RacingPete

9,156 posts

228 months

Monday 19th November 2007
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It is a weird one I must admit... though I have tried to repeat this in-house and can't get it to systematically fall over, so still working on the weirdness of this.

NiceCupOfTea

Original Poster:

25,539 posts

275 months

Monday 19th November 2007
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It's not the first time it's happened - a clean install / erased cookies seems to sort it - but I can't understand why it suddenly starts giving trouble when it's been fine for months!!