Weird. Insant Logout.

Tinkster · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:16 pm Post subject: Weird. Insant Logout.

this isn't really a problem okay.

Sometimes when I log in and go in to my profile, I get logged out.
I'm not pressing anything, just my user name.
As long as it doesn't log me out I'm fine, but if it continuesly(?) logs me out, I'll have a problem.

Is FAC doing it? or is it a bug or something?
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Stratadrake · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:39 pm Post subject:

Mainsite side, not forums, correct?
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Tinkster · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:35 pm Post subject:

Yeah, it doesn't do it in the forums.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject:

Mainsite and forums have separate login processes.

If I recall correctly, your login cookie will occasionally expire, but this is not much of an issue.
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Tinkster · Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:17 pm Post subject:

so it's normal to do that once in a while?
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Stratadrake · Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject:

In short, yes.

As a developer I am EXTERMELY paranoid about login cookies. After all, if someone was able to snag it then they have immediate access to your account at a minimum, and that's a Bad Thing.
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Sora121 · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:46 am Post subject:

The log-in cookie should have little to nothing to do with that, in the case that the user is already logged in. After log-in data is stored server-side, via PHP Sessions, as you know.
This could be some remnant of the Session collision bug Denis was concerned about a while back. But if this is that bug, I think the problem is beyond PHP's control. If it isn't then there is some white-space breaking our server headers thus rendering sessions invalid, and forcing users to re-authenticate.

A session could easily become invalid or unset during the server /tmp/ directory cleaning, tho. Which means its just (almost precisely) bad timing on the user/PHP sessions behalf.

As long as this doesn't happen every or every other time you try to view/edit your profile this shouldn't be a problem at all.

Tinkster · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:16 am Post subject:

It's doing it again. like once a month.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject:

Yes, once every 30 days sounds about right. Hmm, should make that configurable....
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