Login problems
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For about a month or so I am having problems with staying logged into the website. Sometimes when I visit www.codeproject.com codeproject fails to use cookies to do automatic login. Sometimes even when I have logged in and clicks on a link then the new page forgets that I am logged in. The worst case is when I type a message or answer and after clicking submit the system askes for credentials. The funny thing is that if I refresh a page couple of times then I am logged in automatically. I am using Windows 7 + IE8. I have deleted cookies and cleared temporary files but it does not help. -Saurabh
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For about a month or so I am having problems with staying logged into the website. Sometimes when I visit www.codeproject.com codeproject fails to use cookies to do automatic login. Sometimes even when I have logged in and clicks on a link then the new page forgets that I am logged in. The worst case is when I type a message or answer and after clicking submit the system askes for credentials. The funny thing is that if I refresh a page couple of times then I am logged in automatically. I am using Windows 7 + IE8. I have deleted cookies and cleared temporary files but it does not help. -Saurabh
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I am having this problem for more than a month. And of course I have restarted my computer many many times since then. -Saurabh
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For about a month or so I am having problems with staying logged into the website. Sometimes when I visit www.codeproject.com codeproject fails to use cookies to do automatic login. Sometimes even when I have logged in and clicks on a link then the new page forgets that I am logged in. The worst case is when I type a message or answer and after clicking submit the system askes for credentials. The funny thing is that if I refresh a page couple of times then I am logged in automatically. I am using Windows 7 + IE8. I have deleted cookies and cleared temporary files but it does not help. -Saurabh
Do you have any addins? Some anti-virus program stripping cookies? A privacy filter that's stripping cookies?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Do you have any addins? Some anti-virus program stripping cookies? A privacy filter that's stripping cookies?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Yes I have addins but most of them are standard. Blog this in Windows Live Writer Send to OneNote Java Adobe PDF Link Helper Flash Digital Persona Personal Extension (Finger print scanner) IE7Pro BHO IE7Pro Preferences I use IE7Pro only for closing tabs by double clicking them. I don't use any scripts from IE7Pro. I can disable it and try for couple of days. I have Microsoft Security Essentials but I keep it disabled by default and enable it on need basis. I am not sure about IE privacy setting as I never play with them. But I will allow to always accept cookies from codeproject. Any other ideas? -Saurabh
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Do you have any addins? Some anti-virus program stripping cookies? A privacy filter that's stripping cookies?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Okay I thought I will use FireFox for a while because it is really annoying to keep refreshing the CP pages. But I have exactly the same problem with FireFox!!! So the problem is definitely not with the browser settings. Any ideas what it can be? -Saurabh
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Okay I thought I will use FireFox for a while because it is really annoying to keep refreshing the CP pages. But I have exactly the same problem with FireFox!!! So the problem is definitely not with the browser settings. Any ideas what it can be? -Saurabh
I've never seen this myself, and aren't getting inundated with complaints about this so I'm a little stuck trying to work out what's happening. We moved to .NET4 and it's certainly throwing more errors (internally) due to that ridiculous change to RequestValidation that has been made, but if a page fails it fails - it's not going to have a problem, not log you in, and then keep going. Two things could be happening 1. Cookies are being stripped or dropped. That's an issue your end you should investigate 2. Certain pages you visit are being served to you from the cache, not live. You're logged on in one page, you request another (eg the homepage) instead of sending back the latest, your browser simply serves up an old cached version where you appear logged out. Only issue with (2) is I think you reported that you would try posting a message but it would fail because you weren't logged in. That's not a cache issue, that's a login issue, hence (1)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I've never seen this myself, and aren't getting inundated with complaints about this so I'm a little stuck trying to work out what's happening. We moved to .NET4 and it's certainly throwing more errors (internally) due to that ridiculous change to RequestValidation that has been made, but if a page fails it fails - it's not going to have a problem, not log you in, and then keep going. Two things could be happening 1. Cookies are being stripped or dropped. That's an issue your end you should investigate 2. Certain pages you visit are being served to you from the cache, not live. You're logged on in one page, you request another (eg the homepage) instead of sending back the latest, your browser simply serves up an old cached version where you appear logged out. Only issue with (2) is I think you reported that you would try posting a message but it would fail because you weren't logged in. That's not a cache issue, that's a login issue, hence (1)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Thanks I will try to sniff the traffic on my machine and see whats going on. There is one last thing, I forget to mention this earlier. Look at the this image: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~saurabhg/download/CP-Login-Problem.png[^]. You see the page thinks that I am not logged in but still shows my reputation. -Saurabh
