by ianinfrance » May 6th, 2014, 8:30 am
Hi,
Another of our members used to have a similar problem, and it's not very easy to know why. I can give you a couple of clues, but the problem is almost certainly due to the way you access the internet or to a setting in your browser.
To explain a little. When you set that box to log you in, the board makes a note of your URL (that is the series of 4 or 6 pairs of digits that allow you to be found). It then sets a cookie in your browser. The next time you login, it checks to see if it knows your URL and if it does, asks your browser to identify you. Your browser should then automatically log you in, if you have allowed it to (I'm not sure how general this is). Now... if your URL has changed since you last set that cookie, then obviously the board doesn't recognise you and can't interrogate any cookies. Equally, if your browser is set to refuse cookies, or alternatively if you have security software that wipes them out (because they can be a security risk) then you won't be recognised.
In your case, I see that you have used quite a number of different URLs to access Wildfood, and that may well be the cause of the problem. I didn't make a note of them all, but you used one of them 13 times and another 9 times. If BskyB (your ISP) randomly allocates you one of several different URLs then you may feel you want to contact them to see if you can set a static one.
As for your browser, and allowing it to set (and not clear) cookies, then that's something you might want to check up on. Either way it's 99.95% certain that one of these two phenomena is behind your problem.
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All the best
Ian
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