forum problem

[jnealand]

I don't know if this is only me, but often when I enter my login information on the main screen and click login I get a second special login screen.  I do not type my login info in, I have it in a program called lastpass which automatically enters it so this is not a typing problem.  When I get the "login error" I can enter the password in the special login screen or I can just click the login button on the main screen where my data is again filled in automatically and I get straight into the forum.  When the forum was first upgraded several weeks ago this happened all the time.  Then the issue went away and I figured something got fixed.  Now it is happening again.  Anyone know what is going on?

[RJ]

Not sure I have not experiences this myself. If others are seeing this please post here so I know it could not be a single issue with his setup.

RJ

[Greg]

I've had this problem too, though this time the log in worked first time.

Noticed exactly same behavior, but I always type my log in manually.

During times when the problem happened, my packet logs show the user name being sent with the password field blank/empty even though the password was definitely typed in on the screen. from the dedicated log in screen, either clicked from the index page or after the the failure takes you to the special log in screen, logging in works every time.

I never reported this because RJ asked for people to hold off on reporting problems and I was waiting to see if either the problem cleared up or RJ asked for remaining issues to be reported...


Separately, how about a secure https log in option?
Or maybe implement "HTTPS Everywhere" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

Greg

[jnealand]

Here is the screen that comes up after hitting login by the "forever" the first time.  I then hit login at the top by the "forever" and I get logged in.  At no time did I type anything.

[TexasStingray]

I have had that happen before, just thought I typed in the password wrong. Probable did!

[rogerwh]

I have the same issue using Firefox.  gets me to the "special" screen and says I must wait at least 2 seconds before logging again.  Al;ways works on the second try.

[Freebird]

Thought it was the new security systems.  I too get the same thing and have to log in twice.

[RJ]

I will check SMF forum for any known issues. I checked I do not have anything special setup.

RJ

[jnealand]

I am using firefox 5.  Will try it with IE9 and Chrome.

[taybrynn]

I've noticed that the new messages since your last post has been sometimes working, sometimes not.

[gophergrove]

Do you mean when you click the 'new' link from the results page it doesn't always load the thread page it just hangs until you refresh the 'show new posts since...' page and then click the 'new' link again and then it loads? 

That has been a bit of an annoyance since the upgrade.  Happens on different machines running different versions of IE - cannot recall it ocurring before the upgrade.  It's not a show stopper but could indicate a larger issue.

[jnealand]

I've noticed that the new messages since your last post has been sometimes working, sometimes not.

I have noticed that sometimes myself, but I read this forum on several computers and have chalked it up to forgetting to logout on one of the machines.  As long as I am careful to logout everytime, it seems to work ok.

[jnealand]

I have used ie9 a few times over the last two days and have not had the login problem yet.  Maybe it is something to do with firefox 5.  I don't remember this happening before I upgraded firefox from 3.x to 5.x so that may have something to with it.  My netbook is still running FF3 so I will have to dig that out and see if it fails there.

[meman]

I use Firefox 5 with no problems. Sounds like session management issues.
Log out of DLA and go under tools ->options and delete the cookie for "dlanimation", it stores PHP session info, etc.
Then try to login again.

[RJ]

I use Firefox 5 with no problems. Sounds like session management issues.
Log out of DLA and go under tools ->options and delete the cookie for "dlanimation", it stores PHP session info, etc.
Then try to login again.

You may be right! the cookie did change when we updated the forum I wonder if you guys still have the old one cached.

RJ