Login Box in the Top Right of the Main Page

[rodent]

Filling out and clicking the "login" link a the top right hand side of the main page sends you to the login page, where you have to retype in your name and password. This shouldn't happen. Either the "login" link should log you in or the "name" and "password" fields should be removed.

I still like the forum though, just so you folks know you're doing a good job.

rodent (putting the eek in geek)
"There's not a word yet,
for old friends, who just met"
-Gonzo, "I'm Going to go Back There Someday"

[rodent]

FYI, the login area DOES disappear from the corner after you've logged in. To duplicate this problem, you'll have to logout first.

rodent (putting the eek in geek)
"There's not a word yet,
for old friends, who just met"
-Gonzo, "I'm Going to go Back There Someday"

[III]

furthermore, the "log me automatically" check box fills out the information in the useless upper right hand dialog box. there's some crossed wires, somewhere.

[technopatra]

hmm...I couldn't recreate that bug. Can you tell us what OS/browser you're using?

~technopatra~

[III]

osx/safari. that could well be the problem.

[precipitate]

> osx/safari. that could well be the problem.

Doesn't work for me in Windows 2000 or Win 98 with:

IE6
Opera 7.2

But it does work in Win2K with Mozilla 1.4.

[mancanburntoo]

Filling out and clicking the "login" link a the top right hand side of the main page sends you to the login page, where you have to retype in your name and password.

I get the same thing on my win 2000 and 98 boxes using I.E6 and Netscape. I just look around until I find a post I want to reply to and login that way.

[Alpha]

technopatra,

I copied the HTML for each of the login screens and played around with them a bit on my web server. On the form-processing side, the only significant difference is that the mini-login does not have the session id (sid) in the POSTed data. Instead, it's in the query string.

I believe you can fix this by adding the sid in a hidden input field right below the <form> tag, rather than putting it on the query string in the form action field.

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<input type="hidden" name="sid" value="(whatever)" />

[technopatra]

Thanks Alpha! I'll be sure that Spanky sees this.

[blikum]

Thank you all for alerted us to this issue. I have discovered the culprit and fixed this bug. It will be rolled out very quickly.

This was a browser cookie issue. There was a missing PHP tag in the header form that was not allowing session IDs to be passed as a hidden tag.

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