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I've now saved the cookies and next time i'm logged out i will try loading them again and see if they get deleted again.
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Ok, it seems that the site really is deleting gol-device and gol_session after a time. I was just logged out, the cookies were gone. I recovered the backup, reload the site - cookies deleted.
I would assume that the hash stored in this cookies is also stored somewhere on the server and deleted if they don't match or something like that?
Edit: i just tried editing the values of those two cookies - no logout. But as soon as i also edited the value of the PHPSESSID cookie, i was logged out and the other two cookies were deleted.
I then tried to only modify PHPSESSID, but that didn't log me out or delete the cookies.
So it seems all three cookies have to mismatch? I'm no Webdev, but maybe you can make something of this? ^^
Last edited by Termy on 28 November 2019 at 8:35 am UTC
Still tracking where it happens, but since my fixes posted earlier it's not happened once to me personally when I saw it often. So it must be something you're doing, that I'm not where it happens.
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Well, it does do something: make the site delete the cookies ;)
If i modify the value of all three cookies (just changed the last digit) and then visit the site, gol-device and gol_session get deleted despite expiry set to 27-01-2020 and i'm no longer logged in.
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i would have assumed something like that.
But i just tried it - closing the tab, modify only gol_session - open a new tab and to to GoL - still logged in.
Or is the session kept alive based on IP?
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Let me know if there is anything else i could provide to narrow it down
I've added some extra logging to detect if there's any pages that don't get the session for whatever reason, to see if perhaps there's still a call somewhere that is missing it.
Without a confirmed method of getting it though (and I don't mean messing with cookies manually, has to be the site itself), it's extremely difficult to find.
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I always call the main page first (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ to be exact), no subpage. Is there any kind of browser log that could be of interest? Firefox' console doesn't seem to contain anything in that regard.
Do update me in a few days if you now see no logouts!
Edit: So far it seems stable, I've removed my own session and closed desktop/mobile browser - both keeping me logged in. Keen to see how it goes after a day or two,
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 28 November 2019 at 6:30 pm UTC
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nope, still getting logged out :(
First yesterday, i then cleaned the cookies once more, just to be sure - but now i was just logged out again :/
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Last edited by WorMzy on 1 December 2019 at 7:19 pm UTC
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Edit: Cancel that - logged out again :/
Last edited by Termy on 2 December 2019 at 8:32 am UTC