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Guy Fawkes Grand Master

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Cookies for http: and https: are stored separately.

 

Your probably logged in to one and then going to the other. Reset your bookmark to the https: version (https://www.companyofmen.org) as that'll eventually be the default. You'll eventually be forced to only come in via https:

 

Happens to me almost daily as people send me links to the http: (non-secure) url. I have to go back and add the "s" to their links to be able to edit.

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Cookies for http: and https: are stored separately.

 

Your probably logged in to one and then going to the other. Reset your bookmark to the https: version (https://www.companyofmen.org) as that'll eventually be the default. You'll eventually be forced to only come in via https:

 

Happens to me almost daily as people send me links to the http: (non-secure) url. I have to go back and add the "s" to their links to be able to edit.

Believe it or not, I have been using the new https link (I switched my regular link to that one as soon as you told us to do so). But I still have the old bookmark as well, and try as I might, I haven't been able to remove it. I just experimented and discovered that if I log in with the new one, then leave the site and accidentally return by hitting the old link, when I then try the new link, I find I am no longer logged in on it.

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Believe it or not, I have been using the new https link (I switched my regular link to that one as soon as you told us to do so). But I still have the old bookmark as well, and try as I might, I haven't been able to remove it. I just experimented and discovered that if I log in with the new one, then leave the site and accidentally return by hitting the old link, when I then try the new link, I find I am no longer logged in on it.

Charlie, you don't have to remove or delete your old bookmark. Simply right click on it, left click on properties in the dialogue box, delete the current location url and copy and paste the correct (new) one in there and click save.

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Charlie, you don't have to remove or delete your old bookmark. Simply right click on it, left click on properties in the dialogue box, delete the current location url and copy and paste the correct (new) one in there and click save.

Thanks. I knew that at one time, but I couldn't remember how to do it. One of the problems with an aged brain is that I have difficulty remembering how to do technical things that I don't do regularly.

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Thanks. I knew that at one time, but I couldn't remember how to do it. One of the problems with an aged brain is that I have difficulty remembering how to do technical things that I don't do regularly.

it doesn't help that new revisions of software move things around. I'd like to think it's to make things easier, but I rarely find that's the case, at least for me.

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When the message forum started at the beginning of the century, it was rare to have someone try to exploit the system. Today there has been 270 attempts and counting.

 

It's not about making things easier for you; It about making things harder for the assholes. :rolleyes:

 

it doesn't help that new revisions of software move things around. I'd like to think it's to make things easier, but I rarely find that's the case, at least for me.
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When the message forum started at the beginning of the century, it was rare to have someone try to exploit the system. Today there has been 270 attempts and counting.

 

It's not about making things easier for you; It about making things harder for the assholes. :rolleyes:

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that was the case for the forum software. I'm thinking more of upgrades to browsers, or MS office products. Just when I find something useful there, an upgrade comes through and moves what I found into a totally different menu structure. Optimistically, this is based on feedback from new users & is putting things in more obvious places. I keep trying to convince myself of that.

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As a for instance, when I went to the Firefox instruction for how to delete a bookmark, it told me to click on a certain link and a certain window (which it pictured) would appear, but when I clicked on that link, the window that appeared looked different, and did not contain the next link that I was supposed to click on. That kind of thing has happened to me frequently over the years with browsers and operating systems. I was always told that Mac systems were "intuitive," but my intuition never seemed to tell me how to do anything on a Mac.

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