October 19, 2004

Curious George: cookie? Why does monkeyfilter hate my cookie? At least once a week I'm told i need to log in again, even though i visit daily and never log out. What's up with that?

mozilla, winxp. keeps happening here and at home, even though i bumped my max cookie number way way up... any help here, monkeys?

posted by caution live frogs 20 years ago
  • Hope this helps... I know that in Firefox you can set the cookie as "accept for this session only" and check a box to apply the decision to all cookies from the site. Maybe you did that and forgot about it? If so, go to menu options, privacy tab, exceptions button, and see if you have set that for monkeyfilter.
  • why does mefi hate my cookies? therapists and diabetics love them because everyone really IS looking for a pancake overlord?
  • If you check your monkeyfilter cookie settings you'll see an expiry date set on them. This is set by the server when the cookie is first created. You may be able to edit this with a text editor to expand the amount of time for which the cookie is valid but I've never tried so I'm not sure if it will work.
  • I occasionally notice I've been logged out, but I'm on a Mac, so it may not be the same problem. A possible source of your problem may be that you get your cookie when you log into www.monkeyfilter.com and then you look at the site at monkeyfilter.com (no www). I've had login problems at bulletin board sites that have been caused by the difference between www and non-www URLs in the past. Good luck finding an answer. Constant logouts are a pain.
  • i always recommend sharing your cookies
  • I'll check the expiry time on the session cookies, but I do think I'm logged out more often with Windows/Firefox than with Mac/Safari.
  • I find getting logged out to be very freeing. My god, I could be anyone!
  • MonkeyFilter: Why does monkeyfilter hate my cookie? Ba-zing!
  • This is yet another guess, but it happens to me all the time on firefox / winxp, and I think sometimes firefox mangles headers, which could adversely affect cookies. Do you ever get a message that says something along the lines of "bad or missing header" (and I think something about a semicolon)?
  • Funny. I get logged out exactly once a week, and I just figured that it was something tracicle, in her wisdom, had done, to keep me from forgetting my password.
  • I'm guessing that Firefox is a bit more strict with it's cookie expiration than Safari is. After logging out and logging in the cookie expiry date is exactly one week from the login time so it's a pretty safe bet that the expiration date is the culprit.
  • It happens to me too.
  • I bent my cookie.
  • Happens to me too, and I'm not using Firefox on my PC.
  • primarily using mozilla, not firefox, although firefox gets me logged out as well. i thought originally it was due to the mozilla/firefox max cookie cap, but that doesn't seem to have helped. upon checking cookie details it seems that there is some quick expiration going on. why, oh tracicle, do our cookies (so tasty!) go bad so quickly? anything we can do to add a little shelf-life to 'em? some preservatives, maybe?
  • I almost forgot my password, it's been so long. Thanks for reminding me, guys.
  • Yeah, uh, no problem there, Mr. K and ambrosia. I'll see if I can change the expiry for the session cookies, y'all. I know it's in there somewhere... *rummages, breaks stuff*