Logged Out - WWW in address, or not.

I just followed a link that someone had included in a message and found I was logged out. Their link included the "WWW" and when I use the site I don't.

If this applies to everyone (cookies not shared/shareable between "www" and "plain") then might that explain why some people get logged out all the time - maybe they log in on WWW and then when they post they get redirected to "plain" and become logged out?

Long shot ... but thought I'd mention it.

 

Link to this thread "plain"
http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/logged-out-www-in-address-or-not.53870/

and a link including WWW
http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/logged-out-www-in-address-or-not.53870/

in case you want to try each and see if either of them show you as logged out

For me the top one opens in same-window (as I am already on "plain") and the second one opens in a new window.

 

Erm, I identified this over a month ago and asked about it on the 'Login problems' thread. Got completely ignored

 

Another way of getting into www.gardenerscorner is to inadvertently use www when performing a Google site search, which although it sounds glaringly obvious as I type, I'm sure I've been sloppy in the past and used www in lieu of http:// as it seemed to work

 

Sorry, didn't realise it had been raised before. I've never had a problem being logged off, as others have reported, so having encountered it thought it might be related.

When we have both WWW and "Plain" sites we redirect one to the other, so that all users arrive in one (or other! but not both). That might be worth considering.

Either that or maybe there is some link somewhere, in the HTML code, to "www" and folk are getting logged out when they encounter that link.

I think a silent redirect from "www" to "plain" might be best? Or at the least prevent Google from spidering "www" and only let is spider "plain"

 

In IE, if you log in without the www (or with it, can't remember which way round it is), it redirects to the other, thus bouncing you straight back out. Chrome behaves a bit better, but still misbehaves if you do as in Kristen's example. Examining the cookies that GC generates (there are about 6), some are bound to www.gardenerscorner.co.uk, some have a wildcard allowing either with or without the www. Or at least that was the case before the latest updates.

 

My guess would be you are logged in on both - at some point in the recent past you have been redirected to WWW, found you were not logged in, then logged in and now ... you are still logged in on both.

 

Will redirect www to no www later