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Automatic forum login

Posted: 31 Oct 2016, 18:46
by Thanim1254
When you log in to the MS forums, there is a button which says it will automatically log you in when you visit. But it doesn't work. And it's really annoying when you accidentally close down the browser, you open it again in 20secs and it logs you out. Maybe someone could fix that. :|

Re: Automatic forum login

Posted: 31 Oct 2016, 18:58
by senjer
It works on my pc using Chrome. Do you have auto-cookie delete at shutdown enabled?

Re: Automatic forum login

Posted: 31 Oct 2016, 19:00
by MetroSimGermany
Well, for me it works. You need to tick the box and then login as usual.

But you need to understand how login works: sim.bemined.nl actually gives you a cookie with a token. When you then open any site under sim.bemined.nl/forum it detects this token and know, "Oh it's Thanim" and you appear logged on. This cookie has the status to be destroyed by the browser when you close it, or when you log out. Using this option, the cookie becomes consistent and never is destroyed by the browser itself. However, cookie-manipulating programs may still remove the cookie or change the token so it does not work. Please check that any of these programs are disabled for cookies from the forum. :)

Edit: Senjer was faster apparently. I use Firefox btw.

Mika aka MetroSimGermany