[dieterbrock]

So i primarily view the board during the day from my work PC (minus the tweets/pics ) and intermittently will check on my iPhone.
I never log out of the site on either device and only seem to need to after clearing cookies/cache

Lately, and only on my iPhone and only on RFU, it requires me to log in every time open the site. Yes, of course I click the “remember me” radio button each time I log in but sure enough if I close the browser and reopen I have to log on.

Surely it’s not a big deal because the phone stores the password so I don’t have to type in the info each time but it just seems weird.

Was there an upgrade or security patch added that would cause this?

Maybe it’s HJ’s “them” controlling what I can see

[aeneas1]

i take it you're using safari as your browser? lots of browser security updates lately, especially safari, wondering it this is a byproduct of an update? anyway, not experiencing the same thing with my pc / chrome / firefox, haven't tried my phone, android, (hardly ever use it)... let us know if it continues..

[dieterbrock]

i take it you're using safari as your browser? lots of browser security updates lately, especially safari, wondering it this is a byproduct of an update? anyway, not experiencing the same thing with my pc / chrome / firefox, haven't tried my phone, android, (hardly ever use it)... let us know if it continues..

Yeah I use safari on my Iphone.
Its weird because this is the only site I have that issue with, and its only on my phone.
Not an issue, just found it weird

[Elvis]

I only rarely get booted off of my phone or iPad. I know we have another poster who was having this problem a couple years ago.

I cleared the RFU site cache which i doubt will do anything, but maybe.

dieter, have you gone into your iPhone setting to clear Safari's web data that way?

[dieterbrock]

I only rarely get booted off of my phone or iPad. I know we have another poster who was having this problem a couple years ago.

I cleared the RFU site cache which i doubt will do anything, but maybe.

dieter, have you gone into your iPhone setting to clear Safari's web data that way?

I never got booted. Just seemed like after I closed safari, when I went back an hour or so later, I’d have to log on.
Maybe it was just a glitch. Worked fine the last couple times I logged on.
Never cleared the web data on my phone

[dieterbrock]

Found out why I have to constantly log in. My phone gives me an alert that the website is not secure.
Is this an iPhone issue? I’m assuming it’s a “my phone issue”

[Elvis]

I've been having to log in a lot more often on my iPhone and iPad now than ever before, started last weekend i think.

The secure thing has to do with browsers now flagging sites that don't have SSL certificates. It really doesn't matter for us, we don't do any business, don't take any money, don't store anyone's sensitive data. If we were a business taking credit cards, then it would matter.

Still, it's a bad look bad so i suppose we're gonna have to deal with it...

[aeneas1]

Found out why I have to constantly log in. My phone gives me an alert that the website is not secure.
Is this an iPhone issue? I’m assuming it’s a “my phone issue”

as elvis mentioned, using http (as we do here) instead of https (ssl certificate) will throw up security alert flags, especially these days as more and more browsers are embracing https.... but, again, https is more about ecommerce, i.e. adding a layer of security/protection for shared data such as credit cards, something that rfu doesn't deal with, sensitive/private info... but everyone's moving to https, and i'm sure rfu will too before long, in fact i'm currently experimenting with cloudfare's ssl package, looks great.

re getting bounced off the site, timed out, after a bit more digging it appears that this has nothing to do with http/https, it's a cookie issue... i've reset the cookie at rfu which is supposed to help, but you should clear your browser's cache and also use the forum tool to clear your forum cookies as follows: "dashboard > navigation > delete cookies".

hopefully this will help!

cc @elvis

[dieterbrock]

I've been having to log in a lot more often on my iPhone and iPad now than ever before, started last weekend i think.

The secure thing has to do with browsers now flagging sites that don't have SSL certificates. It really doesn't matter for us, we don't do any business, don't take any money, don't store anyone's sensitive data. If we were a business taking credit cards, then it would matter.

Still, it's a bad look bad so i suppose we're gonna have to deal with it...

Its really no big deal, I guess knowing that its not just me is really all I need to know. Was getting concerned it was my phone itself.

[Elvis]

Its really no big deal, I guess knowing that its not just me is really all I need to know. Was getting concerned it was my phone itself.

I find it annoying, hopefully Aeneas's cookie fix will do the trick...