Not until a developer can duplicate the problem -- what were the conditions? How long between getting to that page and hitting post? What's your OS/browser? What are your user settings? Remember me? Does anything else log you out like that?
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2003 6:41:58 pm PDT #4200 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Connie Neil - Jun 27, 2003 11:38:27 pm PDT #4201 of 10000
brillig
Oh, it probably had to do with the usual time-out protocols, which I believe are timed from the last activity. I did take several minutes on writing the post. What's the default amount of time that has to pass before you're logged out?
Win98 running IE5.5. I don't have "remember me" set because I dislike cookies, but maybe I don't understand "remember me" correctly.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2003 5:46:30 am PDT #4202 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't have "remember me" set because I dislike cookies, but maybe I don't understand "remember me" correctly.
Remember me does use cookies. What don't you like about them? Question -- do your URLs have a PHPSESSID on all of them? Because if they don't, you are using cookies anyway.
Really, if you don't have it set, I think that's going to happen. PHP has a session lifetime of about half an hour, at which point it frees stuff up and moves along.
P.M. Marc - Jun 28, 2003 7:59:47 am PDT #4203 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Right, the Sartre discussion reminded me:
Adding the char. count limit to the posting box header? Can this be done? Just to have it as a reminder.
DCJensen - Jun 28, 2003 9:05:50 am PDT #4204 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Cookies need not be feared, Internet cookies, like the real thing, can be good or bad.
Most cookies are there to keep your information on your machine. That way the website doesn't have to keep a database of all your information.
Now pop-up windows....
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jun 28, 2003 10:38:04 am PDT #4205 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Yeah. Good thought, Plei.
Seconding Steph:
That would be *really* useful, mostly for ficcers.and adding it to the requests list, unless someone can leap in and change the wording before I get to the file.
Connie Neil - Jun 28, 2003 4:19:00 pm PDT #4206 of 10000
brillig
The cookie thing stems from a bizarre anarchistic dislike of being tracked in anyway. I have the browser set to dump most cookies at the end of an Internet session. Still, I've given the Phoenix my email and meat address, I suppose I can let in a tiny marker that will keep me from losing posts.
Deena - Jun 28, 2003 4:38:43 pm PDT #4207 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
and that's where it begins... just a little crack in the dam, and she's on the road to ruin.
/mixed metaphor natter
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2003 7:19:59 pm PDT #4208 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Connie, if you don't have PHPSESSID in all your URLs here, you've already got cookies. And if you don't want to be kept track of then ... well, it won't happen.
RobertH - Jun 28, 2003 9:17:20 pm PDT #4209 of 10000
Disaffected college student
I have Mozilla set up to ask me about individual cookies. It's very nice. Like when I'm registering at an online store, I can accept the cookie from www.nameofstore.com and reject the ones from .suspiciously-missing-prefix.net and www94.wearelookingatyourightnow.com.