Remember me broken?

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Ambush Commander
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Remember me broken?

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This has been bugging me for a while; I don't know if it's my cookie's fault or phpBB, but it seems that DevNetwork's remember me cookies don't last for very long. Can anyone confirm this?
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it's indefinite for me on two systems
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Probably me then. Any suggestions on what could be causing this? (Also, what's the name of the cookie phpbb uses for remember me?)
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

search for all the cookies from devnetwork.net and remove them

In firefox it's in edit >> preferences >> privacy >> show cookies
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Appears to be working (deleted cookies, relogged in, closed browser, still logged in), but I'm not sure for how long. Will post again when I get logged out.
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Post by s.dot »

Always works for me. You may have your browser settings to delete cookies when you close the browser (hey, i've done it before).
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

phpBB doesn't use just the cookie, it also matches it against your IP. So if your IP changes, even if the cookie lives on, you will be logged out.

This happened to me last year when the company I worked for decided to shuffle client IPs like every three minutes. I was constantly getting kicked from the forums.
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Post by Ambush Commander »

Oh, that must have been it! I have a fairly static IP, but recently it changed. Ok, that clears things up. Things working great on my end, anyway. :-)

Hmm... this is probably a phpBB bug, because if you Log in with Remember me it should override the old cookie.
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