Author Topic: how to stay logged-in longer on the forum? (Read 8583 times)

tomek-k · « **on:** September 26, 2006, 11:44:33 am »

Hey.

The login time of the forum is too short... what to do to stay logged in longer?

rasz_pl · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2006, 01:53:29 pm »

nothing, I suspect the logging out has something to do with craptastic servers at sourceforge

Stof · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2006, 02:00:13 pm »

There must be a problem somewhere : I nearly never have to relog myself. Nearly because sometimes, seemingly at random, I'm not conncted anymore.

There's no doubt that the combo crappy sourceforge hosts + crappy ressource hog phpBB doesn't has much chance of working correctly

Somethief · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2006, 04:42:34 pm »

I have logged in once, 2-3months ago so just keep those cookies and it works

(and when you login click on "Remember me" :wink:)

rasz_pl · « **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2006, 05:05:58 pm »

hey, so THATS whty I remember you ...

2-3 months ago? serious? so maybe its browser specific?
Opera 9.02 here, had to relogin at least 5 times this month

tomek-k · « **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2006, 05:53:34 pm »

Hmm... I've been trying to login with the "remember me" option several times but it doesn't work for me (I have to login every time)... I have those stupid cookies enabled.

I use firefox 1.5.someting

next_ghost · « **Reply #6 on:** September 26, 2006, 06:52:07 pm »

IIRC phpBB drops your session after 30 minutes of inactivity. You can keep yourself logged in by running this shell script after you log in.

Code: [Select]

#! /bin/bash

URL="http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/index.php?sid="

while true; do
  wget -O - -T 10 -t 0 --no-cache "$URL$1" &>/dev/null
  sleep 600
done

You have to supply your session ID (the long string after sid= that appears in browser address bar after login) as the first parameter.

Karvajalka · « **Reply #7 on:** September 26, 2006, 07:45:23 pm »

Quote from: "Somethief"

I have logged in once, 2-3months ago so just keep those cookies and it works (and when you login click on "Remember me" :wink:)

Same here, I've been logged since I created this account

tomek-k · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2006, 08:09:55 pm »

Quote from: "next_ghost"

IIRC phpBB drops your session after 30 minutes of inactivity.

If I'd stay logged in for so long it wouldn't be a problem for me - my login time is a lot shorter (couple of minutes...).

Quote from: "next_ghost"

You can keep yourself logged in by running this shell script after you log in.

Code: [Select]
#! /bin/bash URL="http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/index.php?sid=" while true; do wget -O - -T 10 -t 0 --no-cache "$URL$1" &>/dev/null sleep 600 done

You have to supply your session ID (the long string after sid= that appears in browser address bar after login) as the first parameter.

I can't see any sid= in the address bar...

Somethief · « **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2006, 09:38:52 pm »

Quote from: "rasz_pl"

hey, so THATS whty I remember you ...

2-3 months ago? serious? so maybe its browser specific?
Opera 9.02 here, had to relogin at least 5 times this month

Opera 9.01 here (I got old version?! why doesn't this lame download new version for me? :evil:)

As i see one of my cookies is valid for couple mins but rest 3 or 4 are valid forever, maybe your firewall/antivirus/spyware etc radars kill those cookies? Or it just doesn't like cookies whose are valid untill 1970-01-01 02:00:00

tomek-k · « **Reply #10 on:** September 26, 2006, 10:34:40 pm »

Maby this is the answer? In my browser I have set "store cookies as long as they are valid" or something like this.
But storing all the cookies all the time equals to growing cookie folder...
A lot of cookies...

cookies..., cookies, COOKIES! :eek:

oh no, they are everywhere... :O

And what then? Who will gonna eat so many cookies?? :cry:

Paradox · « **Reply #11 on:** September 26, 2006, 11:31:30 pm »

Dump Bloatra.

benplaut · « **Reply #12 on:** September 27, 2006, 02:33:40 am »

yea... it's really odd. Sometimes it logs in, but sometimes i have to login every time i go to a different page...

rasz_pl · « **Reply #13 on:** September 27, 2006, 08:36:38 am »

ok, I just changed those stuppid cookies to 2009, lets see if it works

ok , it works

, ppl just edit your cookies and set the expiry date to something sane (2010 for example)

tomek-k · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2006, 12:27:27 pm »

:oops: Now I can see the sid...
It was right afetr logging in...

next_ghost · « **Reply #15 on:** September 27, 2006, 07:38:41 pm »

If that script still doesn't prevent login timeout, try lowering the sleep parameter value.

Undeference · « **Reply #16 on:** September 27, 2006, 10:11:19 pm »

Quote from: "tomek-k"

But storing all the cookies all the time equals to growing cookie folder...
A lot of cookies...

cookies..., cookies, COOKIES! :eek:

oh no, they are everywhere... :O

What browser are you using? According to Netscape's original cookie specification (and the subsequent RFC, I believe), user agents are supposed to limit the amount of total space used by cookies. I'm pretty sure the specs even specify how UAs are supposed to remove cookies.

My cookies.txt is only 93.7KB (I think Firefox limits it to 100KB) and I don't have problems getting logged out on the sites I actually use.

tomek-k · « **Reply #17 on:** September 27, 2006, 11:36:33 pm »

My web browser is Firefox 1.5.0.4.

I've checked the available cookie settings - I have set "Keep 'em as long as they are valid" (or sth. like that - I have a polish interface), but other options are to keep 'em as long as the browser is running and "ask every time".

But maby he problem is not with the cookies? In my case the whole tremulous.net site is very slow compared to other web sites. Maby the connection to the server is the problem?

Undeference · « **Reply #18 on:** September 28, 2006, 06:24:20 am »

It's been rather slow and unresponsive for me too. That shouldn't effect the cookies (and in my case doesn't). Do you have Firefox set to remove cookies when it quits (Preferences > Privacy > Clear Private Data tool)?

On the other hand, it might not be an issue with your settings at all necessarily. Do you have crappy dialup or some such where your IP address changes randomly? That could do it.

rasz_pl · « **Reply #19 on:** September 28, 2006, 11:42:20 am »

forum drops 2 cookies, one is autologin set to expire in 2007.01.01, and the other is sessionid set to expire January 1, 1970 !?!?!?!, so clearly something is wrong

Somethief · « **Reply #20 on:** September 28, 2006, 04:31:51 pm »

Quote from: "rasz_pl"

forum drops 2 cookies, one is autologin set to expire in 2007.01.01, and the other is sessionid set to expire January 1, 1970 !?!?!?!, so clearly something is wrong

There's nothing wrong with the forum, it works perfectly. It's just your browser or some sort of privacy controller which deletes cookies.
Check settings of your antivirus software (if you are using windows or have one on linux). Also check that your browser doesn't delete cookies or new cookies when it's being closed.

rasz_pl · « **Reply #21 on:** September 28, 2006, 05:07:50 pm »

Quote from: "Somethief"

Quote from: "rasz_pl"
forum drops 2 cookies, one is autologin set to expire in 2007.01.01, and the other is sessionid set to expire January 1, 1970 !?!?!?!, so clearly something is wrong

There's nothing wrong with the forum, it works perfectly. It's just your browser or some sort of privacy controller which deletes cookies.
Check settings of your antivirus software (if you are using windows or have one on linux). Also check that your browser doesn't delete cookies or new cookies when it's being closed.

nope, I have those cookies, they are ok, I enter the forum and bam I'm logged out, I go to cookie options and cookies are there (both of them)

Somethief · « **Reply #22 on:** September 28, 2006, 07:30:03 pm »

Quote from: "rasz_pl"

nope, I have those cookies, they are ok, I enter the forum and bam I'm logged out, I go to cookie options and cookies are there (both of them)

I got 3 of them so you are missing one :roll:

Undeference · « **Reply #23 on:** September 28, 2006, 07:31:38 pm »

I have three cookies:
phpbb2mysql_data set to expire in 1 year
phpbb2mysql_t expires at the end of the session
phpbb2mysql_sid expires at the end of the session

rasz_pl · « **Reply #24 on:** September 28, 2006, 07:50:44 pm »

well, to tell you the truth I got 5, jealous? :PP
_utma
_utmz

tomek-k · « **Reply #25 on:** September 28, 2006, 09:41:32 pm »

Quote from: "Undeference"

Do you have Firefox set to remove cookies when it quits (Preferences > Privacy > Clear Private Data tool)?

Nope

Quote from: "Undeference"

On the other hand, it might not be an issue with your settings at all necessarily. Do you have crappy dialup or some such where your IP address changes randomly? That could do it.

My Internet connection is via LAN T3 (I get IP with DHCP at the start of the comp, and of course it is not public IP)

I have also 5 cookies (as rasz_pl):

phpbb2mysql_data (expires: 2007-09-28 - in a year from now)
phpbb2mysql_sid (expires at the end of the session)
__utmz (expires: 2007-03-24)
phpbb2mysql_t (expires at the end of the session)
__utma (expires: 2038-01-18 !!!)

BTW. Hey next_ghost - the script is great - thanks!

Somethief · « **Reply #26 on:** September 28, 2006, 09:46:24 pm »

I still got only 3 cookies :evil:
phpbb2mysql_data
phpbb2mysql_sid
phpbb2mysql_t

And btw i got static IP (Most of xDSL/Cable providers gives you static IP, atleast in Finland)

Undeference · « **Reply #27 on:** September 29, 2006, 12:04:50 am »

__utm** cookies are Urchin tracking cookies (i.e., Google Analytics). No, I'm not jealous I'm not being tracked by Google.

It doesn't seem like there should be a problem, so I don't know what to say.

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