Where does login take you?

[Jacob Bugge]

This is a continuation of observations posted in the Login/timout thread.

Using FF, I open a session for each forum to visit so that I can be in one forum while loading another, and I save my sessions upon quitting and open them again when restarting. Every time I has finsihed reading/posting in a thread, I return to the forum which means that when I open FF upon restart I am taken to the forums and start from there.

It seems that when I login from one of the forums, I am not taken to the forum but to the last visited thread. Today, I made the login from the Illustrator forum and was taken to the last visited thread there, A golden floor, and not only that: I was taken to the Print Preview version of the thread which I had switched to after posting in order to archive it, before returning to the forum through Bookmarks.

So it seems that somehow the browser history determines where I am taken.

Which are your findings?

[Guest]

I go to the forum of choice via a bookmark.

Sometimes I'm logged in, sometimes not.

If logged in, I carry on as normal; if I've been logged out, I click on the "log-in" link, fill in the fields and resume in the forum where I was before.

If I'm logged out while in the middle of something, I just log back in and end up where I was.

Sometimes I lose the reply I was writing.

[Guest]

I have the same experience as JJ

[Kath-H]

Couple of times I've landed in some obscure forum I've never been to.

[Jochem van Dieten]

Jacob Bugge wrote on 2009-06-09 12:15:

So it seems that somehow the browser history determines where I am taken.

What are your findings?

I concluded you are redirected to whatever is in your jive.recentHistory

cookie.

Jochem

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[Jacob Bugge]

Is that not a rather peculiar behaviour?

[Guest]

Jacob Bugge wrote:

Is that not a rather peculiar behaviour?

why, yes. yes it is.

[DonRicklin-BKE8wc]

And this is the cause for a LOT of  postings to the WRONG forum, when a USER is not paying attention to where they end up after relogging in for the umpteenth time!

Yuck!

Don

[AxialInfo]

I've had similarly odd login behavior after the system logging me out, once or twice even being launched into forums that AFAIK I've never been in before.  Extremely disconcerting....