recent upgrade problems

[Fairlady66]

The only time this shouild happen (forum not remembering you) is if you use a different PC or if you have done a maintence (deleting your cookies, history, temp files). You need these cookies so you are remembered. Unless you are having browser issues.

[MTyler]

Check your browser cookie settings as well as your firewall settings. The feature works for me in both IE 7 and Firefox. Any one else?

Steve

The forum doesn't remember me either, using Safari. It will remember me if I visit multiple times while logged in to my ISP (dialup) but if I hang up and log back in to thi 'net I need to log into the 311s forums again. Other sites do remember me, however.

-Marc

[keith0alan]

Same here, I'm on AOL and have to log in twice before I get in. Other groups I belong to work fine. I checked cookie handling and set it as unrestrictive as possible. It was much more pleasent to use when I could click on "posts since last visit" rather than pawing through all the sections.

keith

[S Allen]

Sorry to hear some of you are still having problems with this. Not sure there is anything I can do about. If it did not work for any one I would blame it on the board but that is not the case. Keith, I will add the "post since last visit" back. That is not too difficult. I had not realized it had disappeared. I am blind sometimes.

Steve

[Primm69]

I've decided I like it - just realised that it actually does remember me when I come back, for the first time since I've been here!

[dbrick]

I also noticed that Ebay doesn't remember my password either, so in my case, at least, it is likley a computer or firewall setting.

[ppeters914]

It was much more pleasant to use when I could click on "posts since last visit" rather than pawing through all the sections.

That feature has always worked for me since joining the forums in June 2004. This is on IE6 & 7 and Firefox 1.x & 2.x on various computers running Windoze 98, 2000, and XP, and I almost always nuke my browser cache.

[RockFish]

I've had a problem getting my login to "stick" since I joined. Seeing this thread made me finally decide to see if I could do anything about it, and I found something that worked (for IE6 at least) - Try this - Go to the tools menu in IE, select internet options, then the privacy tab. Enter http://www.311s.org in the box and press allow, then OK. This fixed the issue for me, maybe it will work for you as well. I would imagine most browsers have a similar function - The "allow" for a site makes your browser trust cookies from the site you add.

Steve - I think part of the issues people may be having is that browsers are expecting a P3P policy file before accepting and keeping cookies from the site - If you're interested, check out - http://www.w3.org/P3P/details.html I believe that if you generated and included a P3P policy file, changing security settings as described above would be unneccesary.

[S Allen]

Rockfish,

I will take a look at it but will have to find out whether my host provider supports P3P.

Thanks.

Steve

[Brad Lustig]

Sorry to drag up an older topic, but wondering if anyone is still having this problem. I stay logged in at home on 2 computers with no problem. My new work computer has the problem staying logged in. Before, when i was having problems on my home computer, I would stay logged in for about a day before getting logged off. Now, no problems at home, but at work, it won't recognize me at all other than the 1 window I have logged into. I can log in, immediately close the window, reopen and it doesn't recognize me. Or, I can log in, then open another window and it won't recognize me... Any suggestions?

[dbrick]

It's about 75% remembering me now.

[ppeters914]

Brad,

It may help if you told us which operating systems and browsers you're using on the remembering and non-remembering computers.

Most likely a browser security setting.

[Brad Lustig]

XP, Firefox on the computer that's not working quite right.
XP, Firefox on one of the computers that works at home
2000, Firefox on the other that's working at home

311s is the only forum that doesn't recognize me that I visit. For some reason, I guess it doesn't like the cookie.

[ppeters914]

In Firefox, select Tools -> Options --> Privacy

In the Cookies section, ensure:
- Accept Cookies box is checked.
- 311s.org is -NOT- in the Exceptions list.
- Maybe remove the existing 311s.org cookie (click the Show Cookies button) so a new one is loaded.

[Brad Lustig]

I'd actually just done all that about 5 minutes before reading your suggestions, Pete. No exceptions for my cookies. 311s cookies were there, deleted them, they reinstalled and still have the issues. I just noticed that I can be on the forum main page and click on my bookmark, and it'll go back to not recognizing me... This one has me stumped. I may try reinstalling firefox on this computer for poops and giggles.