Great Western Coffee Shop

'morning, when clicking the "mark all messages as read" box toward the bottom right I am now getting the following error message

An Error Has Occurred!
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.

any ideas?

cheers

Not a button I normally use, and not a report I've had before. I tried it out though ... and it worked for me, perfectly as far as I can see.

Questions ...
a) Did you log out and in again as it suggested?
b) If so, did it cure the problem, or does the problem remain?

I get that message wanting me to logout sometimes, I think when I try to post having left the browser open on a page for a long time. Refreshing the page (possibly a hard refresh, which I think is normally Ctrl+F5) normally does the trick.

There are two levels of presence on the forum (and indeed on many other bits of software).

Firstly, you'll have a long-term cookie that recognises you when you return - even after a few days or weeks - if you didn't log out.   And with that set, regular users are able to perform most of their actions.

Secondly, you have a session which times out after (I think) 30 minutes of inactivity.  As admin I need to have logged in to start a new session to do much of that admin work - and that means that at times I log out and then straight back in.

You'll find similar things happen on some online shopping sites - you can return to a site and fill your shopping cart with a longterm cookie, but to confirm / place an order you also need to be logged in via a session.

Thanks people.

It really doesn't cause me any great problems, but I though I'd raise it.

cheers
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