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cwkmacuser · Apr 12, 2009, 01:37 PM

Huh, weird. Usually "Remember Me" is just something that tells the page to remember who you are every time you try to log in. However, browsers do this too, so I have little need for those boxes, which is why I don't usually check them.

Oisín · Apr 12, 2009, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by cwkmacuser

Huh, weird. Usually "Remember Me" is just something that tells the page to remember who you are every time you try to log in. However, browsers do this too, so I have little need for those boxes, which is why I don't usually check them.

Those are two different things.

The “Remember me?” box on the page sets a cookie that remembers that you’re logged in, until the cookie expires (normally on Internet forums, if the cookie is set, a new cookie is set every time you log in, which means that the cookie only expires if you don’t visit the site at all for a long time—then you’ll have to log in again).

The “Do you want to remember this password?” browser pop-up does exactly what it says: it stores the user name/password combination in the browser (or, in OS X, in the Keychain), so that the browser will have the fields all filled out for you next time you’re logged out and need to log in again.

cwkmacuser · Apr 12, 2009, 07:57 PM

With GMail (and other sites) the "Remember Me" button just makes it so that it knows who you are every time you go to the login page.

ghporter · Apr 12, 2009, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by cwkmacuser

With GMail (and other sites) the "Remember Me" button just makes it so that it knows who you are every time you go to the login page.

They still set or update a cookie. Your GMail cookie has your username in it so GMail can fill that in for you. Sites that log you in automatically (like ours) keep other stuff too, like a hash of a password or other stuff. And they ALL have an expiration date. Forum.macnn.com cookies look like they expire in about 24 hours.

turtle777 · Apr 12, 2009, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

Forum.macnn.com cookies look like they expire in about 24 hours.

It's gotta be more than that.

I've come back from travels after two or three weeks, and the cookie was still ok (i.e., I didn't have to login again).

-t

ghporter · Apr 13, 2009, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by turtle777

It's gotta be more than that.

I've come back from travels after two or three weeks, and the cookie was still ok (i.e., I didn't have to login again).

-t

I wasn't intending to say that cwk's problem was all due to expired cookies. I was just intending to describe the mechanism through which sites use persistent "remember me" cookies to log one in. It does indeed HAVE to be something else. Browser bugginess, some other Web app interfering, that sort of thing...

turtle777 · Apr 13, 2009, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by ghporter

I wasn't intending to say that cwk's problem was all due to expired cookies. I was just intending to describe the mechanism through which sites use persistent "remember me" cookies to log one in. It does indeed HAVE to be something else. Browser bugginess, some other Web app interfering, that sort of thing...

I wasn't referring to cwk's problem.

I was saying that your guess that " Forum.macnn.com cookies look like they expire in about 24 hours" can't be right, because they definitely are good for weeks. Unless, of course, even expired cookies will keep you signed in. Then I have to question the usefulness of the expiration date altogether.

-t

reader50 · Apr 13, 2009, 01:19 PM

From looking at my macnn cookies, the bbuserid and bbpassword are good for 8 months and change. If it's the utmz cookie, that one is good for about 75 days.

ghporter · Apr 13, 2009, 03:21 PM

I must have "hit the jackpot" when I looked at my own cookies, because all but one MacNN cookie was set to expire about 24 hours after I'd signed on that morning...

cwkmacuser · Apr 16, 2009, 12:41 AM

The "Remember Me" does the job properly.

Simon · Apr 22, 2009, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by MacNN Forums

The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

Saw that for about two hours yesterday.

[OT: I'm curious how much impact this kind of downtime has on ad revenue.]

starman · May 4, 2009, 08:52 AM

The site's not marking threads I read as such until much later.

cwkmacuser · May 4, 2009, 09:38 AM

I've experienced that a bit, too.

Simon · May 5, 2009, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by reader50

Have you been commenting on News stories in the meantime? A longstanding site bug is if you post a comment on the News page, it logs you out of the forums.

That's a bug?

I always thought that was a feature to persuade news trolls like Testudo to stay out of the forums?

cwkmacuser · May 5, 2009, 08:54 PM

Dakar V · Jun 25, 2009, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by Simon

What's with the board acting up lately? It's slow as crap and I keep getting stuff like this

Fatal error: Unable to connect to memcache server in [path]/includes/class_datastore.php on line 224

It's back, with a vengeance.

sek929 · Jun 25, 2009, 12:11 PM

Same here, I got it twice just trying to look at this thread.

Simon · Jun 25, 2009, 01:03 PM

Yeah, got it again today too.

turtle777 · Jun 25, 2009, 01:08 PM

I just wish I'd get a dime every time the hampstor gets a hiccup...

-t

shifuimam · Jun 25, 2009, 02:21 PM

Same here.

Simon · Jun 25, 2009, 02:33 PM

I'll do it for a nickel.

Big Mac · Jun 25, 2009, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

I just wish I'd get a dime every time the hampstor gets a hiccup...

I don't know, if the hampstor doesn't get well again soon I'm going to start experiencing increased productivity on the order of more than a dime per reload.

Laminar · Jun 25, 2009, 04:18 PM

I blame besson.

turtle777 · Jun 25, 2009, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

I blame besson.

Was he responsible for feeding the hampstor ?

I thought he only fed the trolls...

-t