Help, Ive broken it!

[venta]

At the moment, I can log into livejournal, but as soon as I navigate to another part of the site, I'm all logged out again.

I can't find anything about this in the FAQ, and though the support site lists this as a 'known problem', the post is from August, and Ive never had any problems like this before.

Anybody know what might be happening, and whether I've done something stupid ?

(I'm using Fisher-Price Windows, if that's relevant)

Comments

Re: All's well....?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily...

If you use 'per session' logins (as opposed to leaving a computer permanently logged in as 'venta') then some browsers [I've seen both IE5 and IE6 do this] will occasionally log you out based on things you do in other browser windows.

So, for example, I've been reading something and I think "Oh, I know, I'll write some terribly clever comment" - but then I discover I'm not clever enough so I so a quick Google in another window before writing the comment only to discover that the browser has forgotten who I am ! (Incidentally, when this happens IE also loses the text of the comment for you - great, eh ?)

All's not 100% well

[venta.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it's more to do with pages loading slowly. The problem's been coming and going all day...

It appears to be the case that when I log in, the log in screen is displayed fine, but the little progress bar at the bottom of IE never actually completes. I'm assuming that this is reflecting the fact that the server-side business of logging in is somehow not completed yet.

Thus when I move to a different page it doesn't know I've logged in, because as far as it's concerned, the log in process never completed.

I know nothing about the mechanics of this kind of thing, so may be spouting complete arse, here...