Login doesn't stick...

[Joe_Karp]

Hi.

Every time I go to the Forum page I have to log in. Clicking on the 'Remember me' button doesn't really do anything.

It's not a big deal but any suggestions?

Thanks,

Joe

[spoonrobot]

What browser are you using?

[PSU]

Which internet browser are you using?

Make sure cookies are enabled in the settings (well, at least for http://www.spyderco.com).

[setldown]

Another possibility is you have your browser settings set to clear cookies and cache when you close browser.

[JNewell]

I never bothered to look into the technical reasons, but I can tell you that although the cookie for SF *usually* works for me, it is definitely the most "fragile" cookie I've ever seen. I fairly often have to log back in (IE6, 7 and 8). I'll also add that I use FF on another machine and it doesn't seem to have the same issues, so maybe there's a MS/IE-related issue? Dunno.

[marcus1]

I never bothered to look into the technical reasons, but I can tell you that although the cookie for SF *usually* works for me, it is definitely the most "fragile" cookie I've ever seen. I fairly often have to log back in (IE6, 7 and 8). I'll also add that I use FF on another machine and it doesn't seem to have the same issues, so maybe there's a MS/IE-related issue? Dunno.

I have to do this... If you use IE, you have an issue :)
Stick with FireFox! :D

[yablanowitz]

As nearly as I can tell, there may be a problem with the security statement in the site cookie. Using Internet Explorer, I have to dial down my security setting to accept all cookies and log in here once every time I accidentally clear all my cookies. Once I do that, I can return the security setting to where I normally keep it (Medium-high) and I have no more trouble until the next time I clear cookies.

[JNewell]

I have to do this... If you use IE, you have an issue :)
Stick with FireFox! :D

Thanks for the constructive response. :rolleyes:

[The Deacon]

I have to do this... If you use IE, you have an issue :)
Stick with FireFox! :D

I use Firefox, and while it does have less problems with cookies here, it does have some quirks of its own. Photos often render poorly, with either corrupted band in the middle, or with the entire lower half corrupted. Never happens with IE or Chrome. See it with Firefox frequently, even on Linux, so I know it's the browser and not the OS. Pages on some forums also appear malformed occasionally, either with missing, or misaligned components. Happens a lot more often on BladeForums than here, but it's happened to me here as well a few times. IMHO, there is no perfect browser, it's more a case of which quirks you're willing to live with.

[marcus1]

Thanks for the constructive response. :rolleyes:

Touche ... but this was clearly a joke :)

[Whieee]

Never had that problem, on a variety of OS/browser combinations:
OSX/Safari
OSX/WebKit nightly
OSX/Firefox
OSX/Chrome
Linux/Firefox
Linux/Chrome
Linux/Epiphany
Windows/Chrome
Windows/Firefox
Windows/Safari

This might -in fact- be a MSIE-related issue, or simply a matter of telling your browser to accept the cookie from spyderco.com

@The Deacon:
I don't have any image rendering issues with Firefox whatsoever, regardless of the OS. The main issue I have with Firefox is that it's slower than Safari or Chrome :p

[swanseajack]

Same here. I often have to re-log in after leaving the site.

[TazKristi]

This issue is caused by a glitch between IE and the VBulletin software. It usually comes down to the security settings and insuring that Spyderco is an "Allowed Site" in your security settings within your browser.

Since this isn't directly product related, I'm moving this to Off-Topic. There are several older threads with the same discussion there. :)

Believe me, if I could fix the glitch, I would do so gladly. Unfortunately, that's up to MS and VBulletin.

Kristi

[JNewell]

This issue is caused by a glitch between IE and the VBulletin software. It usually comes down to the security settings and insuring that Spyderco is an "Allowed Site" in your security settings within your browser.

Since this isn't directly product related, I'm moving this to Off-Topic. There are several older threads with the same discussion there. :)

Believe me, if I could fix the glitch, I would do so gladly. Unfortunately, that's up to MS and VBulletin.

Kristi

Kristi (and anyone else) - for what it's worth, this forum is the only one where I encounter this problem with vBulletin. For better or worse, that's actually a pretty large number of fora. :) That's not a complaint at all - I'd come back here even if I had to log in each time! :D

[Streamer]

Same here. When I first signed up, I figured it woud work itself out. Alas but NOT.

And support never responded to my query... :p

So I don't bother logging in unless I'm gonna post.

[THG]

Set the browser to "Allow" Spyderco's cookies. I allow cookies on all the forums I visit. If I don't, then I have to log in each time.

[Joe_Karp]

Interesting read and thanks for the comments ...I use IE 8.0 with XP Pro...and never have problems with cookies, and other than the S'co site never have to log back in each time. So a little research is overdue I guess...

Joe K.

[Joe_Karp]

Uh, just figured out how to enable the S'co Forum cookie by going into: Tools/Internet Options/Privacy and included this Forum. Tried logging out and now go in without a problem.

There ya go...! :)

[defenestrate]

Photos often render poorly, with either corrupted band in the middle, or with the entire lower half corrupted.

Which version of FF are you running? Seem to recall early 3.0 browsers, or perhaps both early 2.0 and 3.0 versions, had well-documented bugs (which I ran across, especially in my FreeBSD ports for some reason - I think it had to do with the binary version that shipped with certain official releases as proper full recompiles of more recent code seemed to nip it in the bud) - if you're running a newer 3.0 series or the 3.5 series, then maybe there is something else going on that I'm not certain about. Want to say that on the Linux side, perhaps certain versions of Cairo or other X11-related display bits may also cause this and not just a bug in FF code.

[The Deacon]

Which version of FF are you running? Seem to recall early 3.0 browsers, or perhaps both early 2.0 and 3.0 versions, had well-documented bugs (which I ran across, especially in my FreeBSD ports for some reason - I think it had to do with the binary version that shipped with certain official releases as proper full recompiles of more recent code seemed to nip it in the bud) - if you're running a newer 3.0 series or the 3.5 series, then maybe there is something else going on that I'm not certain about. Want to say that on the Linux side, perhaps certain versions of Cairo or other X11-related display bits may also cause this and not just a bug in FF code.

Am using 3.6.6 on Windows, which I believe is the latest version. Don't have my Ubuntu Linux box running right now, know the version numbers there are often different from those on Windows, but I keep it up to date as well. The fact that it happens quite frequently on Linux and two machines running different versions of Windows when using Firefox and has been happening for quite a while, but never happens with other browsers makes me suspect Firefox is at fault. I know my internet connection is not the problem as it happens even when I use Picassa to generate a group of web pages and view them locally while tweaking the html code before FTPing them to my website.

Here's an example of what happens. Sometimes both halves of the photo are normal, with just the narrow bar in the center, sometimes the lower half gets corrupted like this...

[CENTER] [/CENTER]

Reloading the page does not help. Leaving and returning to the page does not help. Opening the same page in another tab does not help, nor does going directly to the image URL in a new tab. Clear the cache, or wait till the next day, and the photos that were corrupted will look fine but different ones will be messed up. So the corruption seems to be occurring when the file is written to the cache.