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Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites

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Michael Vilain:
> Obviously, that machine is not identical to the others in some way.  
> Things I'd try:
> 
> Try the browser in a new account.  Try *all* the bowsers in a new 
> account.
> 
> Change the IP address of your machine by taking it to another location 
> (e.g. Starbucks) and see if that changes the behavior.
> 
> Wipe the browser preferences to factory defaults on the machine with the 
> problem, but not if the problem goes away with another account.  If that 
> doesn't change it, remove the browser and re-install it.
> 
> Note that the behavior I see is that sites ask for a password after I 
> quit the browser.  If I've saved the password, they prompt the password 
> with the saved value filled in.  This is the site saying "we don't trust 
> your session ID any more.  Log in again and reauthenticate."
> 
> Things that can change a session ID are 
> 
> (a) IP address changes (e.g. you loose your DHCP lease) or login from 
> another IP address to the site
> 
> (b) quitting the browser which deletes the session information in 
> various temporary files.  I suspect this browser has preferences set 
> internally to do this.  Usually these aren't customer-accessible 
> preferences.  If you can compare the .plist files of the browsers that 
> don't do this with those that do, a diff might tell you what's 
> different.  How do you know what files to diff?  fseventer and various 
> other file-watching utilities may tell you want plist files are being 
> touched.
> 
> (b) is a long shot and probably a couple days to track down if you're 
> lucky.  If this is that important to you, go for it.  It might help to 
> contact the site that doesn't have the persistent values and complain to 
> the webmaster.  If they come back and say "Oh, tell me more about the 
> other machines where it doesn't do this. That's a bug."

Probably not gonna do any of that, especially carry this 27" iMac to
Starbucks! But I genuinely appreciate you taking time to reply.

This phenomenon doesn't require that I quit the browser to manifest
itself, only that I close the page that needs a log-in and open it
again.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-01 22:59 -0400
  Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-02 03:30 +0000
    Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-06-01 22:29 -0700
      Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-02 14:05 -0400
        Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-06-02 19:06 -0700
          Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-02 23:04 -0400
            Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-06-02 23:54 -0700
  Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-06-01 23:33 -0400
    Re: Can't Stay Signed in to Web Sites Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-02 01:13 -0400

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