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Does this forum require you to log in again if your IP address changes?

Unread post by The Squash » 2021-01-05, 21:23

Like I said above.

I have an unreliable Internet connection and often the connection drops out for up to 10 minutes at a time. Predictably, when the connection comes back up, I have a different IP address. Sometimes this happens when I'm logged on to the forum; my cookies aren't cleared when my connection drops out, but when I advance to the next page in a thread, for instance, I'm forced to log in again.

I figure this is supposed to happen, in an attempt to prevent identity spoofing attacks, but want to confirm it. Otherwise I'll assume someone has broken into my account.

Thanks.

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Re: Does this forum require you to log in again if your IP address changes?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-01-05, 22:10

Entirely intentional security measure of the forum software.
While in some situations it may be able to recover your session by providing a session ID in the URL, in combination with additional checks like cookies, there is no guarantee that this will succeed if your IP changed.
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Re: Does this forum require you to log in again if your IP address changes?

Unread post by The Squash » 2021-01-06, 00:47

Thanks. That's all I needed to know.

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