THE EXTENSIONS ARE FIXED

[Estiveo]

I haven't had to relog on at all.

[Reality Check]

I was not logged out on either my PC with Firefox or my two iOS devices. Am I special too?

[Estiveo]

Yesh!

[Foggy]

Everybody's special, in their own way.

[Reality Check]

That thread over at the phpBB support forum is interesting. You've received quite a broad range of advice.

[Foggy]

Lots of it obviously incorrect, to be nice about it.

I had two doctor appointments today, and I have some other stuff going on. I'll work on this tomorrow.

[Volkonski]

After all, tomorrow is another day.

[Sterngard Friegen]

[Northland10]

I am trying to avoid blaming the upgrade for my illness this week. At least I did not need to login again. I have had to catch up on what I missed when I was out of it Tuesday and part of Wednesday.

[NMgirl]

Give Foggy a break. He’s being modest, but I think we all know he was instrumental in investigating and indicting one of the principal architects of the NC gerrymandering plan. Foggy has been BUSY.

NC House Rules Chair pleads guilty to federal charges, resigns seat

Top NC GOP lawmaker criminally charged
By Nick Ochsner | August 20, 2020 at 3:57 PM EDT - Updated August 20 at 6:52 PM

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - House Rules Chairman David Lewis (R-Harnett) has been charged by federal prosecutors with making false statements to a bank and failure to file a tax return.
DOCUMENT: Lewis Criminal Information
The charges were filed with a federal court in Charlotte on Wednesday. They come one day after former congressman and N.C. Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes was sentenced, along with a Durham billionaire and an associate, for their roles in a bribery scheme.
Federal prosecutors typically charge defendants by information instead of an indictment when they have arranged a plea deal.

https://www.wbtv.com/2020/08/20/nc-hous ... ges-filed/

[Northland10]

Give Foggy a break. He’s being modest, but I think we all know he was instrumental in investigating and indicting one of the principle architects of the NC gerrymandering plan. Foggy has been BUSY.

Your right. I'm just lashing out because this illness has kept me from my nightly craft brew and I missed the meetup.

[NMgirl]

Give Foggy a break. He’s being modest, but I think we all know he was instrumental in investigating and indicting one of the [highlight][/highlight] architects of the NC gerrymandering plan. Foggy has been BUSY.

Your right. I'm just lashing out because this illness has kept me from my nightly craft brew and I missed the meetup.

Edit: Sheesh on a crutch. I originally typed “principle”

[MRich]

I was having a problem having to log in multiple times. It seems it was my browser bookmarks. The update added a bunch of letters and numbers onto the link. For example:

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UNREAD POSTS
Before: http://www.thefogbow.com/forum/search.php?search_id=unreadposts
After: http://www.thefogbow.com/forum/search.php?search_id=unreadposts&sid=276f286b139b6aaa38b32acfc779b8a8

So, I am just updating the bookmarks.

[NMgirl]

Staying logged in no longer appears to be an option for me. But that’s ok. Remembering my password every time I want to make a comment is practice for one of those memory quizzes at which trump excels.

[MN-Skeptic]

I'm afraid to jinx myself by posting this, but I haven't had any problems with getting logged out of Fogbow on either my Windows laptop using Firefox or my iPad Mini using Safari. I wonder why some of us have had problems and others not. BTW, the bookmark I use to start Fogbow is the link to active topics. I don't know if that matters or not.

[Sterngard Friegen]

So I can only laboriously log in via Microsoft Edge. And my avatar seems to be lost, too.

If I can ever log in properly again, I do want to change my avatar. I've had the current one for 11 years.

What do you think of this:

[Estiveo]

[AndyinPA]

[NMgirl]

But Stern, if you use a new avatar, ya gotta show up more often. Point.of.Law.

[ZekeB]

Meh. The original avatar is classic Sterngard. Tis the only avatar I've ever seen you with. If you change your avatar it would be like you growing a beard - I wouldn't recognize you.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

I like it!! You can always go back to your first avatar.

To ZekeB re beards- I still recognize Ted Cruz- dammit.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Give Foggy a break. He’s being modest, but I think we all know he was instrumental in investigating and indicting one of the principal architects of the NC gerrymandering plan. :thumbs: Foggy has been BUSY.

Kudos to Foggy! I have submitted his name for a Nobel Peace Prize and the Fogbow Legion of Honor(this medal design is open to adept Fogbowzers and must be submitted pursuant to current Fogbow policies and procedures.)

[neeneko]

Staying logged in no longer appears to be an option for me. But that’s ok. Remembering my password every time I want to make a comment is practice for one of those memory quizzes at which trump excels.

It looks like it might be related to the https/http change. I've found that if I go to the http version of the site I have to log back in, and it only keeps me logged in till I close all related tab. However if I am careful about what goes into my address bar and ONLY go to the https port, I stay logged in.

So the site probably needs a http->https redirect to prevent browsers from interacting with the non-secure version and mixing the cookie types. I think. Web stuff is not exactly my wheel well.

[Northland10]

Staying logged in no longer appears to be an option for me. But that’s ok. Remembering my password every time I want to make a comment is practice for one of those memory quizzes at which trump excels.

It looks like it might be related to the https/http change. I've found that if I go to the http version of the site I have to log back in, and it only keeps me logged in till I close all related tab. However if I am careful about what goes into my address bar and ONLY go to the https port, I stay logged in.

So the site probably needs a http->https redirect to prevent browsers from interacting with the non-secure version and mixing the cookie types. I think. Web stuff is not exactly my wheel well.

Um, I'm a little confused. I thought we went over this whole https thing a while back. How is this coming up as an issue again?

That being said, it would explain why I have not had issues so far. I come to TFB by way of bookmarks, one for the main board index, or the one I normally use, active topics. I updated them some tie ago to use https so I am not dependent on typing the address. In addition, being Chrome, my bookmarks are shared between Chrome on a laptop, and my Android phone (using Chrome).

I rarely use my old iPad right now since I am not commuting on a train so maybe it might have some issues (it used to have random logouts in the past anyway, which I blamed on an old iPad and switching towers). I did update the favorites on that to https as well, IIRC. If I used Chrome instead of Safari (though in the Apple world, Chrome is a visual piece bolted on top of Safari because Apple will only allow their engine on Apple products) it would have the https as it shares the same bookmarks.

[neonzx]

Foggy, maybe you could use .htaccess to force requests to redirect onto https for if/when people don't remember.

.htaccess

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RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thefogbow\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://thefogbow.com/$1 [R=301,L]