Thread: Does anyone else experience login problems?

Originally Posted by Morty

No, Robert, you're not doing anything wrong.

When you log into the SRP bulletin board, the Web site writes a small text file (called a "cookie") onto your computer's hard drive. When you open a new tab or a new browser window to navigate to another post, the Web site -- since it is a computer program and not a human being -- must read the "cookie" file to determine whether you are a member with members' privileges and are logged into the site.

Without speculating on the reasons why, a Web site's computer program can fail to read the cookie file. On those occasions, it is as if the computer user had not logged in yet. It's happened to me when navigating SRP posts also, but not in the last couple of weeks.

When it does happen to me, the first thing I do is hit the Ctrl and R keys to refresh the browser window. That forces the SRP Web site's computer program to attempt to read the cookie file again. Sometimes that fixes the problem. If it doesn't then I just go ahead and login again. And if the problem continues to recur, then I close my browser & other running programs and reboot my computer. That usually seems to fix the problem for me. But . . . YMMV.

Hi Morty
Thanks for the great explanation buddy...I do understand the cookie concept. I didn't try the Ctr+R keys...I will now to see what happens. Will keep everyone posted.

The login was a pain...as soon as I logon and go to another tab (i.e., classifieds, forums or other) the site would show me that I have to login again. This is the part that seemed strange...never had this issue until just recently. I think you may be right that the cookie reading may be at fault here. Robin also suggested add-ons, which I will try to disable.

This is what I'll do:

1. Clear cache and cookies and restart the browser. If this doesn't fix it, then,
2. Restart the Mac...this should fix the problem
3. I will also try a different browser like Safari

Thanks,
Robert

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

I don;t have that enabled for any of the sites...do you think that's the problem?

I'm running linux mint at work and at home with mozilla firefox wih no script. I got the option to check the 'remember me' box on SRP if I remember correctly. I haven't had to do it in many moons. Same with Mountajn Bike Review forums.

Well guys...here's the scoop:

1. Started web browser (Firefox 3.6.3)...No luck. Same problem
2. Restarted Mac...seems to behave now. Will keep playing and opening the various different tabs of SRP in a new tab in the browser and see what happens

But, so far, so good...Option #2 above seems to be the way to go


Thanks for all you guys' help. Should the problem persist, I will shoot another post and humbly ask for more in depth help...


-Robert

Robert, one other thing, on the version of Firefox I'm running. Go to the the tool bar at the top and the drop down menu. At the bottom is 'preferences'. Click on that and from the menu that opens click on 'privacy'. There will be a tab on the next window that says 'show cookies'. This will let you know if the cookie for SRP is being deleted or if it is there.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Robert, one other thing, on the version of Firefox I'm running. Go to the the tool bar at the top and the drop down menu. At the bottom is 'preferences'. Click on that and from the menu that opens click on 'privacy'. There will be a tab on the next window that says 'show cookies'. This will let you know if the cookie for SRP is being deleted or if it is there.

Interesting point Jimmy...I did just that. Logged on, checked on the cookies and sure enough it's there (like it should be). After I logged out, however, the cookies were not cleared and were still there ...Hmmmm

-Robert

I've not experience with Mac OS (other than run from it as fast as I can), but you should be able to start Firefox with a new profile (on a command line, try firefox -p, -P, /p, /P or -ProfileManager - or whatever it takes, couldn't find the command with google) to start with a clean profile instead of yours. Just for the chuckles.