Thread: Logging out

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

Try clearing your cookies

Unfortunately, that didn't work. Clearing everything didn't work. It happens as soon as I click on one of the Classified sub categories.

Dunno why but if and when it happens again make sure that you click the little "remember me" box when you login.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Dunno why but if and when it happens again make sure that you click the little "remember me" box when you login.

Well what do you know......That did the trick! Thanks so much!

Originally Posted by KingsRam

Well what do you know......That did the trick! Thanks so much!

The classifieds system is an external component. By navigating to it, you navigate away from SRP proper. So when you come back, you're treated like you just arrived there the first time. By using the 'remember me' option, the problem disapears.

Originally Posted by Bruno

The classifieds system is an external component. By navigating to it, you navigate away from SRP proper. So when you come back, you're treated like you just arrived there the first time. By using the 'remember me' option, the problem disapears.

"Remember Me" is not designed to be an every-friggin-time thing; rather, you select it once, a cookie is set, and that cookie remains until it is deleted. You can manually delete a cookie, or you can configure your browser's security/privacy settings to do so automatically. The problem is "what to do?" (and how to do it) when SRP cookies are automatically deleted by vBulletin at the end of an SRP session, despite one's browser being configured to NOT do so. I've looked on SRP settings, but I find nothing having to do with "cookies", that is user-configurable.

Explanations? Suggestions? Solutions?

Web-based stuff should be OS- and browser-neutral; i.e.,if it makes use of anything dependent-on an OS, or specific-to a particular browser, it should be transparent to the user. But there's nothing in Linux or Firefox v15.01 that screams out, or even raises its hand with regard to this. Why is vBulletin, here, configured to delete all cookies upon user logout? Is this the default behavior of vBulletin, or SRP-admin configurable? I'm curious... not demanding any explanation and/or changes.

The remember me selection works fine for me on my pc and my iPad. Once it is checked on both units I am always logged in
whenever I visit SRP.

This happened to me a few times when I did not select my log in to be remembered.

Originally Posted by JBHoren

Why is vBulletin, here, configured to delete all cookies upon user logout?

I don't think it is. When you log out, you are basically requesting not to be remembered. Or else you'd be complaining about how you're remembered even after logging out

The browse to classifieds, login and logout, and remember me functions work fine for me. Maybe you need to check your local settings then come back and explain why you thought VBulletin was deleting your cookies. If this isn't a problem you're experiencing though, and you're just basing it off the 2 year old discussion, I believe that specific issue was already resolved awhile back

I logged out of SRP once...

James.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

I don't think it is. When you log out, you are basically requesting not to be remembered.

I believe that is correct. Logging out deletes the cookie. If you "X" out , without logging out, you won't have to log in again. At least IME.