META: Auto Log out when viewing pages?

Submitted by formerlyanonymous on
Trying to figure out if this problem is local to me or everyone, but has anyone been signed out randomly when opening new pages? I've been having it happen quite often the last few days. Just thought I'd ask the peanut gallery before filing a complaint with the host.
MGoBoard

Zone Left

February 24th, 2010 at 11:43 PM ^

I had it happen four or five times in ten minutes while trying to post a test pic on ShockFx's HTML primer. Each time I tried to post, I'd get logged out on that window, but remain logged in on my other MGoBlog window. When I moved to a new board item, I stayed logged in, despite being logged out on the other tab. I'm using FireFox and XP.

Joined: 07/03/2008

MGoPoints: 16428

Zone Left

February 24th, 2010 at 11:30 PM ^

I just noticed it tonight while trying to post something. I noticed I had more than one tab with MGoBlog open at the same time. It's the only thing I was doing out of the ordinary.

Joined: 07/03/2008

MGoPoints: 16428

LB

February 24th, 2010 at 11:55 PM ^

Haven't noticed any problem at all. I *might* have been using Windows at work and accidentally opened it a few times. It seemed to work okay there too.

Joined: 09/26/2009

MGoPoints: 25494

willywill9

February 24th, 2010 at 11:58 PM ^

I noticed it when tracking my other posts... I notice it looks as though I need to log back in; however I don't have to do so, I just ignore it and my session/login never expires.

Joined: 09/22/2008

MGoPoints: 13162

joeyb

February 25th, 2010 at 12:51 AM ^

This isn't going to be a browser/OS issue. Session tracking is server-side and has nothing to do with browsers. The only thing that could be causing it is if the browser were not saving the cookies properly, but since it is not specific to one browser, it has to be something with the server/site.

Joined: 10/12/2008

MGoPoints: 16845

formerlyanonymous

February 25th, 2010 at 1:01 AM ^

Yeah, We've noticed a few specific pages. Brian is looking into it. The two pages I've noticed specifically:
  • Basic HTML Posting
  • View my recent blog entries (under the my account page)
  • Any User's page Just Brian's page (clicking his name)
  • 2011 Recruiting Page
All log you out and appear to have a cache that's set to somewhere around February 10th, at least in my case. My blog entries takes me to a February 8th post I did, and it thinks that's the most recent one as of one day. If I click on Basic HTML posting, the February 10th diary about 5th year senior quarterbacks is the most recent. If I click on any of your names to go to your account page, that also signs me out with my same diary mentioned above as only 11 hours old. This makes me think a site change as of that day might be the culprit. Not sure though. What's weird is that it's not completely signing me out. If I click on another link on a non-problem causing page, I'm still signed in. It's just that page that shows me as signed out. If you happen upon one of the pages that signs you off, leave a note of it and how you tried to get there on this thread. If we find a pattern, it could help. It's being looked into.

Joined: 06/30/2008

MGoPoints: 38964