Repeated requests to logon

[Bucky4]

......I'll be danged, it worked!!!!! I did not have to go through the logon process again to enter the reply. Go figure!!!!!

 

[MikePA]

Stale cookies.

 

[MossRoad]

Stale cookies.

Nothing more dissapointing than stale cookies, except maybe sour milk. Glad he got back in O.K.

 

[Bucky4]

Stale cookies????? Guess I just don't fully understand what a cookie is.

 

[MossRoad]

Stale cookies????? Guess I just don't fully understand what a cookie is.

It's a little file put in your web browser cache by a website that you vist. When you leave a website and go back to it later, the website can check to see if you are, for instance, a unique user ID, logged in our out, what pages you have visited at thier website in the past, etc... it helps to make your visit to that website easier. Here's a link to a fairly decent wikipedia article on cookies.

 

[Bucky4]

Thanks MR for the explanation and the link. These cookies must get stale mighty fast as I am back to repeated logons.

I go through the process as posted earlier and it brings things back to normal, but what a pain to have to continually do this!

Not to change the subject but what's up with the posting times? What time zone are they based?

 

[Hakim]

Bucky,

It sounds to me like you have a "cookie blocker" in your browser. Either that or you have a setting that deletes all cookies on closing your browser.

I don't know how to specifically how to tell you to fix this. You can turn off cookie blocking, or enter an "exception". Depends on which browser you are using.

Do a Google search for "IE turn off cookie blocker" or "Firefox turn off cookie blocker" and you should get headed in the right direction.

 

[MikePA]

Bucky indicated in posts 10 and 11 that once he deleted cookies and restarted the browser, everything was working. There were a number of intervening messages about what cookies are and the fact all was working might have gotten lost.

 

[Bucky4]

Bucky,

.... It sounds to me like you have a "cookie blocker" in your browser. Either that or you have a setting that deletes all cookies on closing your browser. ...

Definitely no cookie blocker. I disabled that feature immediately when the problem first appeared.

Yes, I do have the "delete upon closing" feature enabled. (Don't want the hard drive filling up.)

Remember that I originally said the TBN site is only one giving me fits. No problems elsewhere.

Also, I'm not closing the browser. Remember that I initially logon to TBN before going to the forums and after that, every reply I make, requires a another logon process.

 

[MikePA]

In post 11 you indicated it was working OK. Is it broken again. Also, cookies do not take up much disk space.