Link and Thread Issues

[Pogo]

Hello.

This occur now for some time many months. To the right Active Topics, when I click on ALL threads from there I go to the threads no problem.

If IN a thread OR in a PM I am provided with a link to another thread via the thread and/or PM I click on the link and it automatically logs me out and I have to log back in.

Why is this happening do you know? Is it just me or does this happen to others also?

Oosie, I get something similar to this -- I've brought it up before, I believe Flacaltenn was in it, and it never did get resolved....

If somebody links another post in another thread it works normally. However if I want to refer to an old post I made and I don't have a link available, I Google it to find the desired thread and then use that link. Far as I know it works for other readers, but if I click that link myself it logs me out as it goes to that page, and I can't log back in from that page.

Meanwhile the current page I was already on, continues to be logged in just fine.

It sounds like something similar going on. I wonder if it's related to Chrome.

I'll look up that thread and link it for you. EDIT --- here it is.

A lot of people are storing links, hotkeys, desktop widgets to the site PREFACED with https// --- rather than just plain http// .... Try https//www.usmessageboard.com to GET that warning.. Then try http//www.usmessageboard.com to NOT get that warning..

Then ditch what ever stored link, hotkey, or desktop widget had the WRONG http prefix on it...

I didn't notice a few minutes ago that there was still a thread available to comment, so here publicly: I tried manually typing in the USMB URL using "http" --- which never shows up in my navigate bar in any form so I have no idea what it's doing --- and it sent me to the sign-in page of USMB asking me to sign in, which I expected. But then it won't let me sign in and just ignores everything I put in the sign-in boxes. So that doesn't seem to have worked.

It's behaving the same way as the issue I raised in the thread that was linked in post 12.

Like I've suggested in PM -- make sure you don't have multiple WINDOWS open and both tuned to the USMB homepage. I hardly ever have multiple windows up when moderating -- just a few dozens tabs..

If I'm logged in and OPEN a new window and go to the home page it shows me already logged in.. But if you TIMED-OUT in an older ancient window and are trying to log-in -- perhaps strange stuff could happen...

Already put this in PM but just to go public, I don't use multiple windows. I will however often have multiple USMB tabs open in order to harvest something from an older page into a current post. That never has given any problems, in fact I can still do that now, as long as I'm keeping activity on the page I'm posting. If I take too long to find that content I'll have to refresh and go around the same certificate error again and start over.

 

[Pogo]

Hello.

This occur now for some time many months. To the right Active Topics, when I click on ALL threads from there I go to the threads no problem.

If IN a thread OR in a PM I am provided with a link to another thread via the thread and/or PM I click on the link and it automatically logs me out and I have to log back in.

Why is this happening do you know? Is it just me or does this happen to others also?

OOoooosie ---- I may have found something. You'll see it in the PM thread with the mods but I did an experiment.

When I clicked your Birds link in that thread I got the logged-out page which I think is what you have above. It won't let me log in.

Then I took your link and copied it, pasted it into a notepad so I could see the whole thing. Your link began with an "http" (no S). If I take that same link and insert an S so it reads "https" ---- THEN it works and takes me to the page, logged in.

It appears we can't log in with an http address but we can with an https.

If I copy and paste the URL address above this page (or any page) it will show up as "https". If I then take the S out, it brings the page "You must be logged in to do that" with the "Sign in or create an account" jazz. It doesn't know who you are.

I don't know why that is or why it changed but that S makes all the difference. See if it works for you.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Hello.

This occur now for some time many months. To the right Active Topics, when I click on ALL threads from there I go to the threads no problem.

If IN a thread OR in a PM I am provided with a link to another thread via the thread and/or PM I click on the link and it automatically logs me out and I have to log back in.

Why is this happening do you know? Is it just me or does this happen to others also?

Step 1. Move to America.
Step 2. Get American isp.
Step 3. Rejoice in all the pop ups.
Step 4. Profit?

 

[Picaro]

Don't have the browsers named here, just Firefox, but it sounds sort of like the 'private browsing' window thing in Firefox, that doesn't save cookies or history that carries over when you go to a different tab or window. Do you have anything like 'invisible mode' boxes checked in your setup? some cookie settings will also break pages and links, as will some 'anti-virus' software.

 

[Pogo]

Don't have the browsers named here, just Firefox, but it sounds sort of like the 'private browsing' window thing in Firefox, that doesn't save cookies or history that carries over when you go to a different tab or window. Do you have anything like 'invisible mode' boxes checked in your setup? some cookie settings will also break pages and links, as will some 'anti-virus' software.

The issue seems to have been figured out, at least its workings if not its underlying reasons. Has nothing to do with this or that browser, has nothing to do with multiple windows or malware, has nothing to do with this although it's related:

A lot of people are storing links, hotkeys, desktop widgets to the site PREFACED with https// --- rather than just plain http// .... Try https//www.usmessageboard.com to GET that warning.. Then try http//www.usmessageboard.com to NOT get that warning..

Then ditch what ever stored link, hotkey, or desktop widget had the WRONG http prefix on it...

-- It has to do with how the browser (whichever browser) hunts for a page. If it tries to navigate to a page addressed to <"http" (with no S)>, you land on the log-in page, which will not respond to anything you do. That's why a searched-out Google link (which returns results prefaced with <"http"/ no S> goes to the result but logged out with no possibility of logging in.

If however you insert an S into that, giving <https.ww etc etc"> ---- then the page loads and works just fine. In a nutshell the site wants to see <https> and when it doesn't get it, the beatings continue.

So there's a workaround at least even if we don't know the whole causation.

I might add that I'm the one that figured this out, so you all must bow before me and yes I do take PayPal.