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Re: Auto login
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 7:13 pm
by widget2k4
No difference here
Re: Auto login
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 7:50 pm
by pennymachines
Did you log out and in again to test?
What phone OS are you using?
Special - are you also using a Mac?
Re: Auto login
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 9:36 pm
by widget2k4
This time it was different, I had to click on login but it skipped my username and password and logged me in.
I'm using android on my phone.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 1:57 pm
by special when lit
I'm using a PC, running Windows 8.
Still had to log in today.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 2:44 pm
by bryans fan
Mine wasn't working for some time, but has been fine for the last couple of weeks. Windows 10.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 4:02 pm
by widget2k4
Back to having to login with my name and password again every time.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 2:08 pm
by badpenny
For the past couple or three days whenever I visit the site I'm logged out.
Yet when I click on the "Log In" clicky, it doesn't take me to a different page to do so it just shows my avatar and ID in place, and I'm there.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:13 pm
by widget2k4
Every time I leave the site and come back I have to login, I've just come to terms with it now
Re: Auto login
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:18 am
by pennymachines
badpenny wrote:Yet when I click on the "Log In" clicky, it doesn't take me to a different page to do so it just shows my avatar and ID in place, and I'm there.
I get that sometimes too
but not always...
Bob also emailed recently with similar login issues. I'll give it some attention again when I return from my hols in a couple of weeks, but this is proving a hard nut to crack.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 4:29 pm
by special when lit
widget2k4 wrote:Every time I leave the site and come back I have to login, I've just come to terms with it now
Me too.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:40 pm
by widget2k4
Anyone having problems with leaving the site and having to login every time you come back?
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:21 am
by liquorbox
Working ok here.
I even used another computer and it logged me in.
That I don't understand but it did.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 8:17 am
by alan57
Having to sign in here too, using a Mac iPad
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:30 am
by ddstoys
Yeah every time here as well from iphone.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:33 am
by bryans fan
Was just on my Samsung phone but now on PC as well.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:36 am
by widget2k4
Pleased it's not just me then
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:24 pm
by special when lit
Me too.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 3:44 pm
by pennymachines
OK - I have a theory, and hopefully a solution.
Once upon a time the root URL of this website was
Then it became
and then, adopting the cryptographic protocol:
But
will also get you here.
Until a few days ago Google was indexing the site under the first (and original) of these URLs.
As of Jan 31, I instructed them to prioritize the
https://pennymachines.co.uk/ URL, so this should start predominating in results from that search engine.
I've noticed that some members (not surprisingly) view the site from the old www address. If they then visit a page under the secure URL, they will no longer be logged in. This is because it is no longer possible (for good reason) to set "secure" cookies, handled by SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), over an insecure (e.g. HTTP) URL.
So, assuming this is the issue, the answer is to ensure the root address is
https://pennymachines.co.uk/ when you log in and make sure you return to and remain on that root. So you would log in to the forum from
here
This may mean updating any short-cuts you click upon to get here.
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:55 pm
by bryans fan
Re: Auto login
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:07 pm
by widget2k4