Timeout During Posts. Is It Just Me?
I run into this problem sometimes where if I take too long to type a post, it seems like my session times out. When I hit submit, it takes me to a page where I need to log in again. Then, after logging in it takes me to a page where it says thread not specified. Usually I can get back to my post intact by hitting the back button of the browser a few times and then hit submit again, but a couple times I've lost my post this way. I've tried this in Linux and Windows and I've tried it in at least 3 browsers with the same results. The time limit is pretty long and normally isn't an issue, but sometimes I have to do some research in the middle of answering a question or I'm flipping back and forth between a computer I'm working on and another I'm posting with. Sometimes I'll time out in this case. I'm just wondering if this time limit is a necessary thing... I'm sure it's not much of an issue for most people.
Second suggestion would be to consolidate the main menu into one main menu. One time I spent about an hour looking for something around the site because I didn't realize that it was a link in the second main menu farther down the page. |
You need to select the option in your UserCP to browse the forum with cookies so it keeps you logged in until you log out.
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Yup, I double-checked. Browse with cookies is set to yes in my profile. Perhaps it's some other setting in my browser I guess. Was just checking to see whether this was something other people were getting as well. Still, it's strange that it's a certain amount of time before the session times out. For short period of times, everything works fine.
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If you have cookies enabled in your browser and your LQ profile, your session will be transparently restarted.
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The only unusual setting I have dealing with cookies is only allowing them for the originating website. Do linuxquestions cookies originate from a different site or something like that? I'll turn off that option and see if I can replicate the problem.
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All LQ cookies originate from .linuxquestions.org
--jeremy |
Just as I follow up. I confirmed that it was the the allow cookies "for the originating website only" option in Firefox that caused this problem for me (and a similar option in Internet Explorer most likely). So if anyone else has this problem, just uncheck that box.
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