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Not logged in if changing to other sections

Asked by Kim Linoh

If I am logged in on launchpad and I change i.e. to "bugs" to comment s.th. I am displayed as "not logged in" and am redirected to the login-mask. After filling in the data and clicking "log in" I am redirected to the page, but I am still displayed as "not logged in".
Cookies and Scripts are enabled, correct Referer and header is send. Using: Mozialla Firefox 3 Beta 5, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Herdon
How can I get logged in permanently?

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Elliot Murphy (statik) said : 		#1

This might happen if you are part of the beta testers team (I see something similar).
You go to a page which you you need to be logged in, then when you are logged in, the system redirects you to the edge cluster, and you have to login a second time to edge.

After you login the second time, is everything fine?

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Kim Linoh (psychokim) said : 		#2

I logged in again and now it works on all section except "bugs".
I am logged in everywhere, bu when I click on "bugs" I am not logged in in this section, but still logged in in every other section.

So I cannot report bugs oder comment bugs. Is there a workaround?

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Kim Linoh (psychokim) said : 		#3

I successfully solved the problem.
The problem lay in the new cookie-dealing of Firefox 3 b5. I allowed launchpad to set cookies, but unfortunately - and I don't know why or how - Firefox set some kind of spcial-site-restriction for bugs.launchpad.net which denied the cookie. After looking into "site information" > "authorizations" (as I use the German version of FF I can unfortunately only guess how this menu-point is named) I saw that under Cookies the box "deny" was ticked. So I set this to allow an voilà it worked.
So the workaround is quite trivial - but if you don't know Firefox sets site-specific-rules for cookies, even if you globally allow the site, it is quite hard to solve. It was more luck and fortune that I found this option.

Thanks for your help anyway.

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Mariano Mara (marplatense) said : 		#4

Kim, hi. I have the same problem and would like to try your suggested fix. However I'm unable to fin "Site information". Would you mind pointing me in the right direction?

TIA,
Mariano.

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Kim Linoh (psychokim) said : 		#5

Sure, Mariano.
First you shout go to the launchpad-page on which you are unable to log in. Then you click right and choose the option "View Page Information". Now you click on "Permissions" and change the cookie settings to "allow". Please make also sure to go to "Edit > Preferences > Privacy" and check that the cookie exeption are also set to allowed (I realized, that sometimes the "other" option is not changed automatically, so check taht one, too)

Now it shoud work.
Hope I could help.

Kim