Dan Hartung wrote:
> I'm about ready to tear my hair out on this one. Since 0.9.3 I've had
> horrible trouble with cookies that just seem to disappear, or that aren't
> recognized by the website when I return (even when I spot-check
> cookies.txt in advance). It started with Blogger, and I reported a bug,
> but that eventually went away after removing all cookies at that domain.
> But now it's everywhere.
>
> Obviously it's very frustrating when every website I visit, from simple
> weblog/boards like Metafilter to e-commerce like Amazon, tell me I'm not
> logged in. Well, not *every*, just over the course of a few days almost
> every site will log me out at some point, no matter how long the cookie
> is set to last -- and most of them are supposedly permanent.
>
> (I'm reluctant to bugzilla this because I haven't had good luck
> identifying bugs; the Blogger one, which seems to be similar, is still in
> there but resolved now that I "fixed" it. The other one I reported turned
> out to be reported ages ago using entirely different keywords.)
>
> Am I alone here? 0.9.5 seemed to be much better the first few days, but
> as time goes on the same problem has manifested. The only saving grace is
> that the password manager *always* unfailingly remembers my info, so I
> can log back in, but it's still a damned nuisance.
>
> I've tried recreating the cookie file. I've migrated my profile. What
> else can I do? Or am I really not alone here?
You're not alone. This happens every time I use Sourceforge, but doesn't
happen when I use my.yahoo.com. I think it might be related to using https
and cookies.
It seemed to work fine with Netscape 6.1.
My system is win2k, release version of 0.9.5 - whatever debugging I can do
,
let me know.
Bill May
