The status of the subscription experiment [LWN.net]

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 2, 2002 21:42 UTC (Wed) by TheOneKEA (guest, #615)
Parent article: The status of the subscription experiment

Has there been any effort to make the cookies persistent (i.e. just going to LWN logs you in so that you don't have to do the extra step?)

BTW, I intend to subscribe soon.

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The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 2, 2002 22:07 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (6 responses)

As far as I know they are persistent. I get occasional reports to the contrary, but without much information. Those of you who are having session persistence problems: which browsers are you using? With that, maybe I can begin to track this one down.

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 3, 2002 1:17 UTC (Thu) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link] (2 responses)

I have to log in every time I visit the site -- unless I have previously logged in during the same browser instance. Again: IE 6 on WinXP. (Don't forget the mixed secure/insecure content when being redirected to https://lwn.net/login... and the "being redirected to an insecure page" after logging in; also, once I login the conext of where I was attempting to enter (a "$" protected story or to post a comment) is lost and I am thrown back to the main page. Then when I navigate to the intended area I initially see the "you need to log in" until I forceably refresh (Ctrl-F5).

With Mozilla 1.2 on WinXP I stay logged in between browser instances and even after upgrading from one version of Mozilla to another.

Damn WinIE. If not for the fact that our web application mandates WinIE, it'd be tossed.

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 3, 2002 5:04 UTC (Thu) by mwh63 (guest, #321) [Link] (1 responses)

My setup is similar (IE 6 on Windows XP Pro and NT 4.0 SP6)
and I am seeing the same problems described by rjamestaylor.

I use Windows _by choice_ on the desktop because I don't
find Linux quite there yet (gosh, bet you've never heard
that before). And I use IE instead of Mozilla because on
my creaky old 233 MHz K6-2 Mozilla takes an eon or two to
start up while IE pops up in under two seconds.

Browser things...

Posted Oct 3, 2002 16:19 UTC (Thu) by dbreakey (guest, #1381) [Link]

Enable the QuickStart option; IE only pops up that quickly because Windows 'pre-loads' it in the background during startup.

If you want a quick option under Linux, try Galeon. I use it routinely on an AMD K6-2 200Mhz (now a Pentium 233 MMX) and it launches and runs noticeably faster than Mozilla. There's also a 'quickstart' option available for Galeon, where it loads an instance to act as a 'server' for subsequent instances--this dramatically speeds things up, if you can spare the memory (I think it's the -s option, but I can't remember offhand).

If you need a Windows solution, try K-Meleon; this wraps a Windows interface around the Gecko engine (same that Galeon does for Linux). I have no idea how well it works though, since I'm using a 600Mhz P-III, so have no problem running Mozilla on Windows.

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 3, 2002 9:13 UTC (Thu) by Robin.Hill (subscriber, #4385) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm using Opera 6.05 and have to log in again every session.

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 3, 2002 14:27 UTC (Thu) by Robin.Hill (subscriber, #4385) [Link]

Found out what was wrong here - my bookmark was to www.lwn.net and the cookie only works for lwn.net.

Cookies good on Opera 6.01/Linux

Posted Oct 3, 2002 13:31 UTC (Thu) by bbt (guest, #2812) [Link]

I am using Opera 6.01 on Linux, and my cookies have persisted since I originally subscribed. I have found that Opera is generally flakey with cookies, but in this case, it has worked perfectly.

-benjy