Being logged out while reading a discussion

[Fearonsarms]

Hi I'm new here. But can anyone help me with this. When I am reading discussions I get to the end and type out my replies which can be a lot of typing. When I click quick reply I find that I am logged out and it is only after using the back buttons I can copy my text. Then I try to log in but end up with a blank page. I have to go back to the forums home page then seek the discussion I was replying to then copy and paste my text before finally posting my reply. If I am doing something wrong please tell me or if there's away to stop being logged out while you are reading the sometimes lengthy discussions. Just as a note if this is happening to other people then it is going to put people off from replying or reading the whole discussion as it is very easy to lose your reply so they will think why bother? Don't get me started on the problems trying to register I shudder to think how many potential posters you lose by telling them they have entered the wrong email. Luckily I ignored that message and logged into my email and found I'd been registered. I understand that you have to keep out spammers but isn't this overkill?

[zwoti]

the wonders of google

Login issues are always cookie related in some regard, and since you said you were allowing cookies, it didn't make sense that you'd timeout anyway.

As it turns out, the "Remember Me?" option is what makes vBulletin save the login credentials in cookie values. Without that option being checked, a simple session timeout results in a member being logged out.

A reply:

All cookies stored temporarily should be able to maintain your account logged on every board out there.

Answer:

Yes, but only if you are storing all the necessary cookie values. Checking the "Remember Me?" box causes vBulletin to store two extra cookie values not otherwise saved: bbuserid & bbpassword. Without those, anything that invalidates your session will cause you to be logged out.

A reply:

Perhaps vbulettin and other boards are rejecting my browser because my network is changing IPs constantly while you're online (this maybe the reason behind this).

Answer:

IP address is part of the sessionhash, so a rapidly changing IP address will invalidate your session and leave you logged out "if" bbuserid & bbpassword are not available to establish a new authenticated session when the address change occurs.

A reply:

If I am not checking the worthless box "Remember my login/password", I can't stay logged more than 2 minutes here.

Answer:

If you choose to uncheck the "Remember Me?" box, (which is checked by default), and if your proxy service is rapidly changing your IP address, then you will suffer those rapid logouts. There's nothing we can do about it. It's the session mgmt design in vBulletin.

A reply:

Every boards allow you to be logged at least for 60 minutes, you may set the time (or not).

Answer:

Actually, that's not true. The default session timeout for vBulletin is 15 minutes. Some forums change it to a larger value, but most don't. (The longer the session timeout, the larger the overhead for maintaining member sessions.)

In any case, even if we increased the timeout, it wouldn't help you. If you don't allow Remember Me? to be set, the first change of IP address will invalidate your session regardless of the timeout, as is seen by the fact that session timeout is 15 minutes yet you are getting logged out every two minutes.

[Fearonsarms]

Thank you for that I avoid search engines especially google I've sorted this all out now :)