Can't stay logged in
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Thanks! I logged out from the old machine, but did not think of deleting the cookies. I'll try that after I make a backup so that I can transfer the old cookies if that doesnt work.
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I tried the log out and delete cookies as you suggested, but no luck.
I saved a copy of the cookies on the old machine but I haven't had time to transfer them over the the new one yet. We'll see…. -
For GayTorrent.ru they have included extra security that you will have to re-log in , your session will only last so long before it forces you to do so.
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sorry junior, this is again incorrect… the PHPSESSION - ID - cookie has got nothing to do with the permanent cookie named with "pass" and "uid" and this has nothing to do with the server security features. Yes, there are several session-id's as well for GTru, but none of them save the user-id, or the password ( btw. the pass isn't saved in this cookie in a normal way, there is a md5-encryption used - who ever is concerned about that for security reasons ). The session cookies will renew every session and/or day, but the permanent cookies won't be changed untill 2038 ( at least, this is the year, what MY actual "uid" and "pass" cookies show me. ^^ ).
Depending on the cookie programming it might be abysmillard, that the saved cookies from your OLD computer might be useless for the NEW computer, if the paths for the cookies aren't the same… but this is normally only in a very few situations the case, because most of the programmers don't set this feature in their cookies - I just wanted to mention that, in case that you copied the old cookies already and might be disappointed, that it didn't work.
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If you will logout once, you should as well have limited login durations in future.
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Thanks, SM8
I swapped out the cookies but it didn't help. Makes sense, because when I first moved to this machine I copied my whole FF profile over from the old one and that's when the problem started. Since then I've deleted everything and started fresh with a new copy of Firefox and a fresh profile.
Perhaps something is corrupted in my OS. There is a new Mavericks update released yesterday so we'll see what happens when I install that. Just for fun, I also have a partition with Mountain Lion installed on this machine that I'll try starting up with. It will be interesting to see if I have the same problem with the older OS. If I don't, I might reinstall Mavericks from scratch—gawd I hate the thought of doing that! I already reinstalled three times dealing with disk problems. Maybe I'll just get used to logging in every time I visit.
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@ abysmillard:
I'm sorry to read that and I feel sorry about that whole re-install thing, but I really can understand that it might be more frustrating if things don't work the way, you would like them to. But please keep in mind as well, that GTru changed some of the cookie behaviour in order "to secure" the site a bit more, as you can read between the lines from Popper. There is not much reason for that, as I found out within in my investigations for your problem/issue, but most programmers and/or server administrators don't seem to be well informed about cookies and their usage, but still jump on the train, that it "might" secure a server, setting the valid time for permanent cookies to a low period of time, which isn't more secure, than longer terms…. but we'll never get a decent discussion about it, I think, we just have to accept, that we are only guests here. ^^
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OK, problem explained though not solved: After I deleted the cookies on the old machine it now behaves the same as the new one, logging out about every four hours. I've been watching the expiration dates of the uid and pass cookies and my log out is occurring just about the time that the cookies expire. My old laptop has been logged in for months, and since I haven't deleted the cookies or logged out, it remains logged in.
As you said, SM8, if you read between the lines you can see that GTru used to allow essentially unlimited log in time, but they've changed the cookes so that now they expire in about 4 hours. Members who have not logged out since the cookies were changed retain their old cookies and their unlimited log in, but if they log out, then the next time they log in they will have a limited time cookie instead of the old unlimited time one.
The complete explanation is indeed contained in the posts from trukr, junior and Popper, but you have to piece it together, because no individual post gave the whole picture:
trukr: the site is programmed to log you out
junior: because they changed the cookies
Popper: but you won't notice this until you log out (or delete the cookies) and then log back in.Since we are guests here, I guess we just adapt to the change. Or register our dislike of the new system and leave it at that.
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I have the same problem. It's very annoying.
Recently I have changed of hard disks and I have created a new Firefox profile folder.
I don't think that the problem is the browser, it's the configuration of cookies:
I login today at 13:00 hs and the uid/pass cookies expire at 18:45 hs today!
Someone has changed this in gaytor.rent website configuration.People who have saved these cookies since a long time doesn't suffer this problem because these cookies were permanent before.
Could some responsible of this website correct this wrong behaviour?
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I have found a temporary solution using the Firefox add-on "Cookies Manager+". After installation, open the cookie manager and search by "gaytor.rent" cookies. Edit "uid" and "pass" cookies and change the year (I have set 2020).
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well, simon… I'm glad that you found a "solution"... but to be honest, that is not really what the administrator of the site wanted, as he choosed to limit the sessions to a lower time. Sure there are always ways to move around of any security feature and in this case you don't even have to use a special program, because you might edit any cookie as well "by hand" with any text - editor.... but as I think, the administrator of the site does think, that a rather short cookie seesion is way better for security reasons and another step to get rid of some bots and stuff. I think it is kind NOT POT POST any tricks for that issue, even that I can as well understand the users, who might want to have a longer coockie-session period. You might want to edit your previous post, after thinking again about it. :hug2:
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I've had the same problem and it just began recently. As in the past couple of weeks. If I log in and then come back a few hours later to see what's new, I find that I've been logged out and have to log in all over again.
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I've had the same problem and it just began recently. As in the past couple of weeks. If I log in and then come back a few hours later to see what's new, I find that I've been logged out and have to log in all over again.
How is this even such a big deal? Are you exceptionally lazy? I am pro security in general, and I don't find having to log in again once every few hours to be that big of a deal.
If it really bothers you, why not use a free password manager like Last Pass? Mind, in my case, I still get the CAPTCHA on re-login attempts.
Some people seem to think not being logged in will somehow affect their ability to seed/download their torrents, but that is not the case.
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I've had the same problem and it just began recently. As in the past couple of weeks. If I log in and then come back a few hours later to see what's new, I find that I've been logged out and have to log in all over again.
How is this even such a big deal? Are you exceptionally lazy? I am pro security in general, and I don't find having to log in again once every few hours to be that big of a deal.
If it really bothers you, why not use a free password manager like Last Pass? Mind, in my case, I still get the CAPTCHA on re-login attempts.
Some people seem to think not being logged in will somehow affect their ability to seed/download their torrents, but that is not the case.
Yes, I am exceptionally lazy. As you are exceptionally rude.
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