Good Morning xyxxy552

Here is a solution that may help to aleviate your frusteration

You don't get signed out, the session expires after 30 minutes of inactivity
If you are in the Forums, you just need to click on MY GRID and then immediately afterwards Click back on FORUMS and you will find that you are still signed in
This has the effect of refreshing your profile to show that you are still signed in to your account
It also saves you having to re-supply your login Name and Password

I find this a lot more convenient that having to keep logging in every time I return to the Forums

Hi Graham,

I don't even see that the session stays up for 30 minutes, and I'm not talking about just using the forums. If I hit the My Grid button from BOINC 5.2.13, it takes me to the web site, where I have to log in, then I get to my account. If I exit the browser here, after about 10 seconds of use, then hit the My Grid button in BOINC again, I have to log in again. It doesn't even have my username or password stored anywhere like most other web logins and I have to keep typing them in by hand. But I guess it's much less annoying than having the diseases we are trying to help combat.

- Bob (I don't know why this project asked me to not use my real name when I created an account)

So, the WCG chose to have a session length cookie for security reasons and the way to get around all these "problems" is just to minimize the browser window rather than close it while recognizing that 30 minutes of inactivity will cause you to be logged out.

Then to use another browser window for anything else that is non forum.

I guess that sounds reasonable to me. On the other hand, I wonder what the security exposure is for having semi-permanent cookies. I suppose the exposure is negligible for home computers but perhaps too high in other environments like schools where pranks are common.

Is the above correct