What the hell, I can't log in using moxilla firefox

mr friendly guy · Post by **mr friendly guy** » 2007-05-01 04:25am

Please move this to testing once its served its purpose.

For some reason I can't log SD.net when using firefox. It just keeps on asking me to retype my username and password after I entered it correctly for the upteemth time. And no it wasn't a typo, because I did some trial and error and deliberately typed in the wrong password or name in which case I was told I entered the wrong password or user name instead.

I had to log onto from IE. Needless to say I have never had this problem and its weird. Can anyone, administrators etc help me out here.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-05-01 04:27am

Clear your Firefox cookies. That's how I solved it.

mr friendly guy · Post by **mr friendly guy** » 2007-05-01 04:32am

Thanks, it worked.

Now can a mod move this to testing. Thanks.

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2007-05-01 06:51am

I had the same problem and the solution worked. Whats changed with the board software recently ?

Post by **Coyote** » 2007-05-01 08:36am

Strange, I've been using Mozilla Firefox this whole time and not had a single problem...

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-05-01 08:57am

I just had the same problem and clearing the cookies worked.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-05-01 09:44am

It started yesterday, there's half a dozen people in the Board Problems sticky who had the same thing happen.

Singular Intellect · Post by **Singular Intellect** » 2007-05-01 09:47am

I have the same issue myself. I tried clearing only SDN related cookies, but that didn't seem to help.

Right now the only way I can log in is if I go to the low bandwidth board version, and then log in there. Then I can return to normal view.

McNum · Post by **McNum** » 2007-05-01 09:48am

I had the same issue. One stardestroyer.net cookie less and I could log in again. I also reset my password for good measure.

I think it has happened before, but it's rare. Do cookies expire or something like that?

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2007-05-01 01:13pm

I had the exact same problem and fix this morning.
The version of Firefox is 2.0.0.3, if that helps determine whether or not it's a board software bug or a Firefox bug.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-05-01 01:37pm

Aye, just happened to me as well, one quick removal..and Voila! it returns!

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-05-01 01:55pm

I had the same problem, I deleted all my cookies and it fixed the issue.

And here I thought it was a problem on my end...

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2007-05-02 02:49pm

This happened to me today as well. Cookie deletion fixed it, per other experiences.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2007-05-02 02:55pm

Yeah, I've been having the same problem and clearing the cookies did the trick.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-05-02 03:34pm

Glocksman wrote:I had the exact same problem and fix this morning.
The version of Firefox is 2.0.0.3, if that helps determine whether or not it's a board software bug or a Firefox bug.

I have that version as well, but this is the only site on which I've experienced this kind of problem.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2007-05-02 04:17pm

Since there are reports of other browsers, such as IE, also experiencing that same problem, I think it might have been that the SDN cookie's expiration date passed. Mine is now set to expire on April 28th 2008.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2007-05-02 07:34pm

The problem is that I have to clear the cookies frequently because the problem seems to like to reoccur.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2007-05-03 09:02am

Happened to me for the first time ever while using Firefox last night. Something is obviously up since I've never had to clear the cookiues before and I've been accessing SD.Net with Firefox for at least the last 2 years.

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2007-05-03 10:48am

I had the same problem, fixed it by clearing my cookies - however although I can now log in again I'm getting occasional strange behaviour. Sometimes when I preview a post it simply takes me to a blank screen, I have to go back and then click preview again to actually see anything.

Also occasionally when browsing the formatting of the page becomes totally screwed - as in, I can see the code which I presume should be controlling the layout of the page displayed in a totally mangled version of the page itself (as if it was half way through rendering the page then went nuts and started inserting the code into the unfinished page). It's happening on two separate machines here, both running Firefox 2.

I'll post this in the board software problems thread in case this thread gets sent to testing.

Archaic` · Post by **Archaic`** » 2007-05-03 12:23pm

Having the same error. Clearing the SDN cookies fixes it, but only until my next browser session.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2007-05-03 03:42pm

Same here,

Anders had the problem too.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2007-05-03 03:54pm

Dooey Jo wrote:Since there are reports of other browsers, such as IE, also experiencing that same problem, I think it might have been that the SDN cookie's expiration date passed. Mine is now set to expire on April 28th 2008.

Okay, fuck that then, it happened again...

Edit: I noticed the address for the cookies changed from "bbs.stardestroyer.net" to just "stardestroyer.net". Fascinating...

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2007-05-03 04:29pm

I had the problem too, at two different computers. Deleting the cookies for bbs.stardestroyer.net worked.

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2007-05-03 04:49pm

Maybe the BBS software should instruct our browsers to delete the SDN cookie every so often, then reissue it.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2007-05-03 07:51pm

Now I'm not being able to post with Firefox.