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:
1) Download a brand new browser. No previous history. 2) Go to the site. 3) Login.
** At this point the login silently fails ** ** You are sent to the front page without being logged in **
4) Login a second time.
** Now the login works. **
5) 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.
Daniel.