cookie / session .... problem?

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I am experiencing an anomaly. Not sure if it will resolve itself, but making the note here in case anyone else is experiencing it.

When I am logged in and viewing a thread, I sometimes click the "FORUMS" logo on the top left. Usually, this just brings me back to the home page and I remain logged in (as expected). Today, it shows me the homepage as a GUEST user (i.e., logged out) and gives me an error about cookies. Clicking on other links to navigate the site keep me in GUEST mode.

The even stranger thing is if I manually enter the homepage URL, I am logged in again and the homepage displays as expected. In other words, my login session is still in tact, but for some reason gets circumvented when clicking on the "FORUM" logo. The only thing I can think of is the link is somehow sending me to a different forum instance?

Again, not sure if this is an anomaly based on some setting or extension I have installed in chrome, but I have not added or changed anything since yesterday.
 
I am experiencing an anomaly. Not sure if it will resolve itself, but making the note here in case anyone else is experiencing it.

When I am logged in and viewing a thread, I sometimes click the "FORUMS" logo on the top left. Usually, this just brings me back to the home page and I remain logged in (as expected). Today, it shows me the homepage as a GUEST user (i.e., logged out) and gives me an error about cookies. Clicking on other links to navigate the site keep me in GUEST mode.

The even stranger thing is if I manually enter the homepage URL, I am logged in again and the homepage displays as expected. In other words, my login session is still in tact, but for some reason gets circumvented when clicking on the "FORUM" logo. The only thing I can think of is the link is somehow sending me to a different forum instance?

Again, not sure if this is an anomaly based on some setting or extension I have installed in chrome, but I have not added or changed anything since yesterday.
I haven’t tried the work around yet but I’m having the same issues
 
Clear your cookies. Open "inspect" > Application > "Clear site data"
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Happened to me too this morning, this fixes it. Likely just some session oddities with the past few days' abnormalities
 
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Happened to me too this morning, this fixes it. Likely just some session oddities with the past few days' abnormalities
Did not work for me. It logs me out, which makes sense since I deleted the cookies. But after I log back in the issue comes back if I click on the Home links. Can still sidestep by typing address manually.
 
Did not work for me. It logs me out, which makes sense since I deleted the cookies. But after I log back in the issue comes back if I click on the Home links. Can still sidestep by typing address manually.

same
 
Huh, interesting.
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What do you see when you inspect this element? what link does it read there? for me it's the link to the forum with the http instead of https. Could be you guys are seeing a different link show up there.
 
Huh, interesting.
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What do you see when you inspect this element? what link does it read there? for me it's the link to the forum with the http instead of https. Could be you guys are seeing a different link show up there.

it's the same for me. it's http and not https. server doesn't seem to be forcing the https connection. this is likely the issue and would be an easy fix. only the FORUMS logo and the HOME menu item seem to be pointing to the http and not https
 
not sure why that would affect your sessions but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For now I guess do what you can to work around it. After I did my workaround, it doesn't cause problems for me anymore so I thought maybe it would work for you guys, guess not.
 
it's the same for me. it's http and not https. server doesn't seem to be forcing the https connection. this is likely the issue and would be an easy fix. only the FORUMS logo and the HOME menu item seem to be pointing to the http and not https
Just checked this on my own and was coming to report the same thing. Link goes to http not https
 
not sure why that would affect your sessions but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For now I guess do what you can to work around it. After I did my workaround, it doesn't cause problems for me anymore so I thought maybe it would work for you guys, guess not.

this is a php site, which likely uses secure cookies for the sessions in https. those secure cookies aren't passed along when a connection drops from https to http, so the session disappears but then reappears when we manually type in the https part.

didn't notice the link being http til you pointed it out, but this is the cause and as I said, an easy fix since it seems to only occur in those links pointing to the home page (nycfcforums.com)
 
I fixed this for myself by changing the link I was accessing from. I had a saved link in my browser that was just nycfcforums . Com and I edited the link to https and now it’s working fine.
 
I fixed this for myself by changing the link I was accessing from. I had a saved link in my browser that was just nycfcforums . Com and I edited the link to https and now it’s working fine.
The problem is that the image itself has the http in the link itself. If you click that link you'll notice it takes you to the http version of the website. Both the "Home" and "FORUMS" buttons do it. Might be with the way php is getting the base_url or something.