Forum login fails

[onoehring]

Hi,
anyone else?
An error I experience here in the forum:
I am logged in. When I try to answer a post I need to log in again. Sometimes multiple times before actual posting is possible.

Olaf

[jsetzer]

Yes, happens to me from time to time. Got used to copying all text to clipboard before pressing Submit button.

[zibrahim]

Yes, me too

[a.gneady]

I guess what happens here is that the reply form uses a csrf token that expires within a limited time frame. If you don't send a reply within that time frame, the error occurs. If you're sending a long reply, you could try copying your reply before submitting, refreshing the page, then pasting the reply and submitting.

[D Oliveira]

I guess what happens here is that the reply form uses a csrf token that expires within a limited time frame. If you don't send a reply within that time frame, the error occurs. If you're sending a long reply, you could try copying your reply before submitting, refreshing the page, then pasting the reply and submitting.

it can be very frustrating to write an elaborate answer with code and lose all of its content on submit, this error actually happened as im writing this message which was a 1 min typing window, can you please track with jquery a onchange event and save to cookies the contents of new drafts? that way its always saved, its very easy to forget about this bug and lose motivation to rewrite

[onoehring]

Hi guys,

thanks for all the replies.
And this, Jan, is what I am doing too ... very annoying.

Yes, happens to me from time to time. Got used to copying all text to clipboard before pressing Submit button.

Olaf

[onoehring]

Hi Ahmed,

sure, we understand the importance of security. But this behaviour even occurs when trying to log in.... There should be enough time for the server to check credentials
You have a button "remember me", even when this is checked when logging in (eventually successful), I get kicked out again and have to try to sign in again.

As others seem to have the same problem, maybe there is another reason? phpbb was (at least in the past) the discussion board. I do not think, that millions of other users on the web would tolerate a problem like this for long.

Olaf

[a.gneady]

OK, first of all I need to clarify that I didn't develop the code of the forum ... however, if I understand correctly, it seems that this is a new behavior that didn't exist before, right? I didn't face this issue myself except when writing a very long reply and leaving the reply form open without submitting for maybe 30 minutes or so. But if you're seeing this behavior in much shorter time periods, this is certainly very annoying .. I'll try to reproduce this issue and see what can be changed to fix it.

[onoehring]

Hi Ahmed ,

I would say, the problem exists at least for 6 month, probably since last June.

Olaf

[a.gneady]

I made some changes to cloudflare settings today that I guess should fix this issue. If it still persists, please let me know.

[onoehring]

Hi Ahmed,

thank you. I am sure many people will be thankful ... and surely let you know
Take care
Olaf