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Title: Blank user name and password prompt form fails to login.
Post by: phillipsjk on July 24, 2013, 05:40:21 AM
Normally, when I want to log in, I click on the "Login" button near the top of the page without filling in my information. This presents me with a page complaining that I did not supply my log-in information. If I then fill in my log-in information, I now get a message that there was an error: and that I should wait 45 seconds before trying again.

If instead, I fill in my login information with the mini form next to the login button (like a 'normal' person?), it appears to work every time. The other day, the login with the intermediate page failed at least 3 times. Today it failed once before I gave up on it.

One awkward thing about this bug is that there is no clear way to report it until you find the work-around ;)



Title: Re: Blank user name and password prompt form fails to login.
Post by: theymos on July 24, 2013, 06:01:53 AM
Why do you login in that way?


Title: Re: Blank user name and password prompt form fails to login.
Post by: phillipsjk on July 24, 2013, 05:58:41 PM
Just about every other website I log into has a separate login page. (I actually avoid logging into web-forums)


Title: Re: Blank user name and password prompt form fails to login.
Post by: theymos on July 26, 2013, 11:02:40 PM
Just about every other website I log into has a separate login page. (I actually avoid logging into web-forums)

There is a separate login page:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=login

There's a link to this page above the login button.


Title: Re: Blank user name and password prompt form fails to login.
Post by: niko on July 26, 2013, 11:08:20 PM
I only do what OP describes for pages that are not SSL-ed, but then take me to a dedicated SSL login page. In this forum that is not a concern, so just log in via the mini form.