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In the past 2 days I've been going through threads and at some point during the session I get the login screen when clicking on a link; it seems my session has not only been lost but when I close the explorer window and re-open it to DSXchange it has forgotten my password. This has happened to me on differents PCs (both at home and at work). Has this happened to anyone else recently?
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It happens to me a lot. I thought it was my fault.
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It happens to me every day. In fact, my first reponse to this went to the login screen. I reported this to Walter in December, but the issue is still unresolved. I haven't had a lot of time to follow up on it.

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I noticed that behaviour only yesterday. So far its fine.
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I haven't seen this. When you say 'clicking on a link' do you mean the normal navigation links for the site, or links people have posted inside threads? :?

If the latter, I've only seen that when someone is connected to 'dsxchange.com' rather than 'www.dsxchange.com' and they post a link without the 'www'. I 'hover' over a link now first to check and, if missing, copy the shortcut and add it back in myself, instead of clicking.
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No, it is normal navigational links; i.e. when I have the list of new posts and click on one to view it. Even though I've just looked at a previous one, I'll get the login screen again. If I close the window, reopen it at the top level then my login cookie is also gone and I need to re-enter the userid/password. Has happened 5 times now so it really isn't a frequent error.
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ArndW wrote:No, it is normal navigational links; i.e. when I have the list of new posts and click on one to view it. Even though I've just looked at a previous one, I'll get the login screen again. If I close the window, reopen it at the top level then my login cookie is also gone and I need to re-enter the userid/password. Has happened 5 times now so it really isn't a frequent error.
Happened with me as well, but only yesterday (02/01/2007). It's fine now.
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This happens to me only if I have logged into DSXchange and I initiate a remote connection to another computer.
Otherwise I do not face any problems.
Yes another thing which everybody know already is that you get logged off if you don't do any activity for a while.
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Post by ray.wurlod »

I am beginning to see this more frequently. It used to be as narashima suggests only when surfing away from the site - even when following a link - but now it's in the middle of working through the postings.

From here it is many hops to the server, so I thought it may have been my network. Now I'm less convinced of that.

Is everyone using IE? Does the problem occur with one of the other browsers?
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I am using IE. So far so good. I only experienced it yesterday.
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DSguru2B wrote:I am using IE. So far so good. I only experienced it yesterday.
Same here.
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IE 6, work and home, have not seen the issue that I recall.
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Walter hates IE passionately, and uses only Firefox. So Walter may not be seeing the issue.
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Post by ray.wurlod »

More information.

I get reliably asked to login again when I choose Search from one of the forums, then choose a topic from the search results.

If I use the browser's Back button to return to the point from where I chose Search, I find that I am not logged out, and can continue as previously.

It seems to regard "Search" as an attempt to surf away from the site.

My workaround is to use a second browser window to perform searches.
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Odd.. I don't see this issue at all, even when emulating Ray's method which actually is something I do fairly frequently. The only time I see it is when switching 'domains' - from 'www.dsxchange.com' to 'dsxchange.com' (or vice versa, technically) - they seem to require separate logins.

If you are using IE, have you upgraded to the IE 7 release? I, for the moment, purposefully have not.
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