Who keeps eating my cookies???

[openmind]

They keep growing legs and doing a runner!

Every time I come to the board I have to login despite me ticking off the remember me box. Tried clearing cookies and temp Internet files but bugger all works....

Has something changed in the last few days??

And if you see my cookie, can I have it back please?

[Admiral Collections]

Hi

Mines okay, then again maybe your cookie is tatsier than mine!

Nic :wink:

[Jayne]

lol..Sorry, i've not eaten your cookies :lol:

Jayne

[openmind]

My cookies are lurvly with chocolate chips albeit a little hard to find at the moment....

[MinuWeb]

it'll be hiding in the same place as the socks that go missing

[Coding Monkey]

I actually find that I visit threads, it says I've visited them, then 10 minutes later the icon changes to inform me there are new replies, but there aren't.

[Admiral Collections]

Well, you are all going to think I'm so blonde with this.

I can't check my emails to see when threads have been answered to, so I just keep an eagle eye. Anyways, last week I was looking at the updates, so say it said reply and Jaynes name and I knew previously it was me I would click on it. For 1 full day I was thinking my replies and stuff weren't being posted and that there was some error with the replies system, until I realised that there are more than one page to each thread. Duh!

Nic :wink:

[MinuWeb]

LOL@ nic, thats a classic ! :D :D

[Admiral Collections]

Queue Blonde jokes in Time Out!


Nic :wink:

[SillyJokes]

I have the same cookies problem with my home PC - I have to log in every single time. At work it is OK.

so a solution to this one would be appreciated

[clairemackaness]

I'm having to log in every time. The PC is not remembering me and it's driving me mad. Whats going on?

[MarkPearson]

Im also having the same problem with having to re-enter my username and password each time I visit the site :-(

Had the same problem a month ago then it was fine, now started again.

[Coding Monkey]

Have you noticed a difference between visiting www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk and http://ukbusinessforums.co.uk? Although the cookie isn't set to the default of www., the browser might (somehow) be reading it as an extension and ignoring the cookie

[fastfences]

I have to log in every time too. I don't understand your theory Tom; we all have the same problem.
Cheers, Nigel

[Coding Monkey]

Well, I don't have the same problem. What I'm saying is that you might find by visiting UKBF via the URL with www. present might have an affect on how the browser reads the cookie.

[Hayles]

I don't have the problem at the moment - I did a month or so ago. (It wasn't when the site was being attacked was it?)

[Coding Monkey]

Right, I've been experimenting on this and what I said previously is correct.

If you login with www. in the URL, you are given a different cookie than if it's not present. This means if you logged in via www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk, when you close the browser (because phpBB is using sessions, it will timeout when you close the browser) and come back to ukbusinessforums.co.uk (without the www.) it will appear as if you're not logged in. This will all depend on how you logged in and how you revisit the website.

To stop this, the admins could alter the login file and make the cookie domain name set to ".ukbusinessforums.co.uk" as it will then be available on all subdomains.

[fastfences]

Thanks for elaborating, Tom. I thought it was something from the servers or Admin. side because I haven't changed any settings and always access the site from my email links, so therefore am always going into the www.

Perhaps we'll see what words of wisdom Ozzy or Rob will offer, before there's a mass exodus :wink:

Cheers, Nigel

[Coding Monkey]

No problem. You should find that if you login via www. and without, it will set 2 different cookies and you should therefore always remain logged in. That's the case for me, anyway.

[clairemackaness]

Ive tried it with and without the http:// and it still logs me out each time. Its getting really annoying now

[Urban Space]

I'm fine. It keeps me on here. I'm on http://www...

:?!

Liam

[fastfences]

So am I. I'm using IE 6. You are too, aren't you Urb?
Cheers, Nigel

[Top Hat]

I think the http://www or http:// bit is a red herring.

I always return via bookmark, its never changed and the problem just started.

I cleared my cookies and that seems to of fixed it.

Does it fix anyone elses?

[Jayne]

Mine works fine since i've started using IE, I save my login words on the MS (do you want me to save it thing)

It still doesn't work much in AOL, i've stopped using it now.

Jayne :D

Oh I had a look at them cookie things and i've got loads and loads, how do you know if they are bad or good cookies?

Thanks

[Coding Monkey]

Taste them, Jayne!

And Top Hat, it might not be the entire issue, but it certainly is a cause of it. Perhaps in your case certain cookies were being read that didn't correspond to data in the database so each time you revisited, the browser was sending the wrong cookie.

[Jayne]

Sarci bugger :twisted: