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Surreylily:
--- Quote from: ArJunaZ on Tuesday February 06, 2018, 11:00:08 AM Eastern ---I don't know of any website that will not log you out if you clear the cookies for that site. This includes the NHL Capitals forum. Without the cookies which store the information about who you are there is no way for a website to keep you logged in. The only other possible way for a site to connect you to a browser session is by your IP address, but since many people get assigned a new IP address every time they boot their PC no one uses this. Using an IP address to remember a user would also be very problematic for shared computers and Internet cafe's. Cookies are the only method to remember who you are. When you click on "Remember Me" when you login to a website you are basically telling it to track you via cookies that have a long expiration time, but if you delete cookies then these are gone and you will be logged out.
To get more technical: There is on our forum a session ID that is used to track users who do not click on "remember me". I set the limits on this to I think 4 hours to prevent people having to log back in during a typical GDT if they are not storing cookies. This is done on the server side and uses resources on the server, which is why you really don't want to make these last too long. Some sites, such as banking sites, shopping carts, etc. will use both session ID's and Cookies as this offers a little more security that someone won't hijack your session and execute transactions on your behalf. These ID's are long randomly generated keys that are often tied to your IP address for a short period of time. These are not practical to use to keep track of a user's login over long periods.
You will need to maintain the cookie for the forum if you want to remain logged in for extended periods of time. Even cookies expire, normally after 365 days if not renewed.
I hope this helps.
There is no way around this.
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AHA!
VERY well explained AJ :angel: I actually understand now. ;D
It doesn't explain why my poker site remembers me.... but hey-ho, not going to complain about that. ;)
alta:
can we get a barfing emoji?
ArJunaZ:
There you go!!
:O=
awsome :thumbsup: , thanks
;D
Surreylily:
Is it possible to get a "ding" when there are new posts in an active thread? ie: GDT's? No biggie or anything, but I'm still doing the flipping back and forth between the game and the on-line commentary on this notebook and having techs' getting back to the game after checking for recent posts.
To clarify, I have an HP Notebook thingammy, that has Windows 10 installed. Keeps telling me I have no more disc space. My dad explained that this model isn't suited to that program and that the W10 program takes up all the disc space.
Pops (my dad), is an amateur comp expert.... :-\
We did find out that I can't replace my disc with a larger one. Naturally, I would have the only model, or thangammy, that can't. ::) [size=78%] STRAIGHT FACE EMOTE. (Hint,hint AJ [/size] ;) [/size][size=78%]l)[/size]
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[/size][size=78%]WHAT is with the random script sizes?[/size]
alta:
--- Quote from: Surreylily on Tuesday February 13, 2018, 04:03:46 PM Eastern ---Is it possible to get a "ding" when there are new posts in an active thread? ie: GDT's? No biggie or anything, but I'm still doing the flipping back and forth between the game and the on-line commentary on this notebook and having techs' getting back to the game after checking for recent posts.
To clarify, I have an HP Notebook thingammy, that has Windows 10 installed. Keeps telling me I have no more disc space. My dad explained that this model isn't suited to that program and that the W10 program takes up all the disc space.
Pops (my dad), is an amateur comp expert.... :-\
We did find out that I can't replace my disc with a larger one. Naturally, I would have the only model, or thangammy, that can't. ::) [size=78%] STRAIGHT FACE EMOTE. (Hint,hint AJ [/size] ;) [size=78%]l)[/size]
[size=78%]WHAT is with the random script sizes?[/size]
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do you mean a audible ding? and not a pop up?
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