Login to reply to thread after being timed out produced endless loop.

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Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jul 16, 2009
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This is a an easily reproducible bug in vBulletin.

My browser is Firefox running under Linux. I use tabbed browsing a great deal.

It often happens that I load a tab with a page from the BCUK site but don't immediately have time to read it all. In that case I'll leave the tab open until I can get back to it. That might be well after the forum software has timed out my login session.

No problem, I can log in again any time.

Sometimes I'll decide to reply to a post after the forum software has timed out my login. In that case the forum asks me to log in again, which I do. Then I can type my reply, but when I try to post it I get a message asking me to reload the page because I've logged in after the page was rendered. So I reload the page, and hit the 'reply' button. And I get another message asking me to reload the page, because I logged in after... :banghead:

If, instead of reloading the page in the tab that I held open, I reload the page by opening it in another browser tab, then the reply is accepted normally.
 
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Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jul 16, 2009
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In the woods if possible.
Do you always tick the remember me box when you log in?
That usually sorts out any time out issues.

Thanks for the suggestion. No, I never tick that box any more because as far as I can tell it's never actually done anything for me. It hasn't changed the fact that the timeout happens (which I don't really have any issue with) and it hasn't removed the requirement specifically to log in whenever and however I've been logged out -- even if I'm using the same machine and browser when I return to the site to log in again.

I'll give it a whirl to see if anything changes, but clearly this is a software fault and ticking the box shouldn't be necessary.
 

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