If I post more than one message in a day, I have to type in my username
every single message. And also it won't even let me type it in; I have
to click "post article" and get the "you must include a name or at least
an alias" message come up before it will let me type my name again. And
doing that causes my password to disappear, so I have to type my
password in again too.

On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:42:31 +0000, Mark wrote:

> If I post more than one message in a day, I have to type in my username
> every single message. And also it won't even let me type it in; I have
> to click "post article" and get the "you must include a name or at least
> an alias" message come up before it will let me type my name again. And
> doing that causes my password to disappear, so I have to type my
> password in again too.

Is this happening to other people also? It should not.

Do you block cookies? If you do not block them, try clearing all cookies
for the site (that will require you to log back in).

What is supposed to happen is that your username and password should
remain for hours (I don't recall how many), and you can't type over it,
but they should be there, visible.

When the timeout occurs, you you are not logged in, you can type a
username/password.

That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. It works that way for me (of
course, always works for the developer :)

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Retro Guy

On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:55:38 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:42:31 +0000, Mark wrote:
>
>> If I post more than one message in a day, I have to type in my username
>> every single message. And also it won't even let me type it in; I have
>> to click "post article" and get the "you must include a name or at least
>> an alias" message come up before it will let me type my name again. And
>> doing that causes my password to disappear, so I have to type my
>> password in again too.
>
> Is this happening to other people also? It should not.
>
> Do you block cookies? If you do not block them, try clearing all cookies
> for the site (that will require you to log back in).
>
> What is supposed to happen is that your username and password should
> remain for hours (I don't recall how many), and you can't type over it,
> but they should be there, visible.
>
> When the timeout occurs, you you are not logged in, you can type a
> username/password.
>
> That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. It works that way for me (of
> course, always works for the developer :)

Am I the only one for whom this works properly? Can anyone confirm that
it works as described above?

I've added some logging at www.novabbs.com to see if it's working, but
so far I only see that it is when I post. I'm continuing to log to see
what's happening.

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Retro Guy

On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:26:57 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:55:38 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:42:31 +0000, Mark wrote:
>>
>>> If I post more than one message in a day, I have to type in my username
>>> every single message. And also it won't even let me type it in; I have
>>> to click "post article" and get the "you must include a name or at least
>>> an alias" message come up before it will let me type my name again. And
>>> doing that causes my password to disappear, so I have to type my
>>> password in again too.
>>
>> Is this happening to other people also? It should not.
>>
>> Do you block cookies? If you do not block them, try clearing all cookies
>> for the site (that will require you to log back in).
>>
>> What is supposed to happen is that your username and password should
>> remain for hours (I don't recall how many), and you can't type over it,
>> but they should be there, visible.
>>
>> When the timeout occurs, you you are not logged in, you can type a
>> username/password.
>>
>> That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. It works that way for me (of
>> course, always works for the developer :)
>
> Am I the only one for whom this works properly? Can anyone confirm that
> it works as described above?
>
> I've added some logging at www.novabbs.com to see if it's working, but
> so far I only see that it is when I post. I'm continuing to log to see
> what's happening.

Aha! I've duplicated the issue! Now to fix it...

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Retro Guy

On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:50:30 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:26:57 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:55:38 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:42:31 +0000, Mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I post more than one message in a day, I have to type in my username
>>>> every single message. And also it won't even let me type it in; I have
>>>> to click "post article" and get the "you must include a name or at least
>>>> an alias" message come up before it will let me type my name again. And
>>>> doing that causes my password to disappear, so I have to type my
>>>> password in again too.
>>>
>>> Is this happening to other people also? It should not.
>>>
>>> Do you block cookies? If you do not block them, try clearing all cookies
>>> for the site (that will require you to log back in).
>>>
>>> What is supposed to happen is that your username and password should
>>> remain for hours (I don't recall how many), and you can't type over it,
>>> but they should be there, visible.
>>>
>>> When the timeout occurs, you you are not logged in, you can type a
>>> username/password.
>>>
>>> That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. It works that way for me (of
>>> course, always works for the developer :)
>>
>> Am I the only one for whom this works properly? Can anyone confirm that
>> it works as described above?
>>
>> I've added some logging at www.novabbs.com to see if it's working, but
>> so far I only see that it is when I post. I'm continuing to log to see
>> what's happening.
>
> Aha! I've duplicated the issue! Now to fix it...

I've just applied a possible fix to www.novabbs.com ...

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Retro Guy

On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:07:15 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:50:30 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:26:57 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:55:38 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:42:31 +0000, Mark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If I post more than one message in a day, I have to type in my username
>>>>> every single message. And also it won't even let me type it in; I have
>>>>> to click "post article" and get the "you must include a name or at least
>>>>> an alias" message come up before it will let me type my name again. And
>>>>> doing that causes my password to disappear, so I have to type my
>>>>> password in again too.
>>>>
>>>> Is this happening to other people also? It should not.
>>>>
>>>> Do you block cookies? If you do not block them, try clearing all cookies
>>>> for the site (that will require you to log back in).
>>>>
>>>> What is supposed to happen is that your username and password should
>>>> remain for hours (I don't recall how many), and you can't type over it,
>>>> but they should be there, visible.
>>>>
>>>> When the timeout occurs, you you are not logged in, you can type a
>>>> username/password.
>>>>
>>>> That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. It works that way for me (of
>>>> course, always works for the developer :)
>>>
>>> Am I the only one for whom this works properly? Can anyone confirm that
>>> it works as described above?
>>>
>>> I've added some logging at www.novabbs.com to see if it's working, but
>>> so far I only see that it is when I post. I'm continuing to log to see
>>> what's happening.
>>
>> Aha! I've duplicated the issue! Now to fix it...
>
> I've just applied a possible fix to www.novabbs.com ...

According to my testing, and following the logs, it appears to be
working but I'll keep monitoring logs for a while.

Thanks to OP for bringing this to my attention!

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Retro Guy

On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 19:36:16 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:07:15 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:50:30 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:26:57 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:55:38 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:42:31 +0000, Mark wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If I post more than one message in a day, I have to type in my username
>>>>>> every single message. And also it won't even let me type it in; I have
>>>>>> to click "post article" and get the "you must include a name or at least
>>>>>> an alias" message come up before it will let me type my name again. And
>>>>>> doing that causes my password to disappear, so I have to type my
>>>>>> password in again too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this happening to other people also? It should not.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you block cookies? If you do not block them, try clearing all cookies
>>>>> for the site (that will require you to log back in).
>>>>>
>>>>> What is supposed to happen is that your username and password should
>>>>> remain for hours (I don't recall how many), and you can't type over it,
>>>>> but they should be there, visible.
>>>>>
>>>>> When the timeout occurs, you you are not logged in, you can type a
>>>>> username/password.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. It works that way for me (of
>>>>> course, always works for the developer :)
>>>>
>>>> Am I the only one for whom this works properly? Can anyone confirm that
>>>> it works as described above?
>>>>
>>>> I've added some logging at www.novabbs.com to see if it's working, but
>>>> so far I only see that it is when I post. I'm continuing to log to see
>>>> what's happening.
>>>
>>> Aha! I've duplicated the issue! Now to fix it...
>>
>> I've just applied a possible fix to www.novabbs.com ...
>
> According to my testing, and following the logs, it appears to be
> working but I'll keep monitoring logs for a while.
>
> Thanks to OP for bringing this to my attention!

I have just pushed this "fix" (hopefully) to 'devel'. Please let me know
if there are still issues.

The problem was failure to write cookies when posting. Php has
'setcookie', but if anything has already been sent, it won't work. These
cookies are written using javascript. I try to avoid javascript, but
rslight does contain some. If you don't allow js, you'll just need to
enter your username/pass each post, so posting still works.

I will still be monitoring the debug.log to see that it's working. BTW,
debug.log is just that, it's for random things I'm testing, so don't try
to always make sense of what is logged there, it makes sense to me :)

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Retro Guy

It seems to be working OK now. Thanks.

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:18:37 +0000, Mark wrote:

> It seems to be working OK now. Thanks.

Glad it's working, and thanks for the feedback!

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Retro Guy