Quoting Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera@zmsl.com:
Earnie Boyd wrote:
Hmm... Are you behind a proxy? Or are your sessions being duplicated or destroyed? Try emptying your sessions and cache tables.
Nope, no proxy. I don't think that duplicated sessions are the problem. On the contrary, the problem seems to happen when the browser has no previous history with the website. The following seems to be a reliable (if inconvenient) way to reproduce the problem:
- Download a brand new browser. No previous history.
- Go to the site.
- Login.
** At this point the login silently fails ** ** You are sent to the front page without being logged in **
- Login a second time.
** Now the login works. **
- Now you can log out and log back in and it'll work the first time. At
this point it becomes difficult to reproduce the problem again without downloading a new browser. It is strange that simply deleting the cookies doesn't seem to be enough to reproduce the problem. But if you haven't used the browser for a while (don't know how long), the problem is replicated.
The problem is not annoying, but it frustrates some users.
See http://drupal.org/node/293612 - "user_authenticate() should work when $_COOKIE is empty"
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/