What info. is held in our cookies?

Dear Group,

When looking at the books I share with another members,
I prefer to see them in "author" order, and thus when I find a new/unknown member I choose that as an option and save it.
I also clean out my cookies most nights (hey, everyone needs a hobby...) and have noticed that the LT cookie probably holds that sort order.

This led me to wonder what other LT info. is held in our ephemeral cookies? Can I find out? where?

Guido.

Thanks for the note. Some things are within your cookies, some are held on the server but tied to a unique cookie, and some are tied to your user id directly.

I wish I had more, but it would take some time to inventory it all.

Care to comment on whether the cookies should mean we have to re-login every single month? I've found this to be the case but I thought you said we should be able to stay logged in for a long time.

Whole thread detailing it here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/124962

The cookies should remain, but you are logged out if your IP changes.

Arg. One important cookie was set to a monthly expiration. I've made some changes. Now no cookie is less than 1 year. I've confirmed this, clearing my cookies, getting in and looking at their expirations.

You'll be logged out once more, as I don't want to get into changing the expiration of already-set cookies.

Cool. Thanks for checking and 'correcting'. It wasn't as if it was a great hardship to login again every month, but if it was unintended, it best to have it sorted.

I can see an argument for it, but perhaps more on a banking site.

It DOES still log you out if your IP changes. I think this is a good precaution. But it can annoy.

>7

Are you sure?
I am traveling a lot and connecting to whatever network the hotel/customer provides (not to mention airports and what's not)... I do not remember logging in anew every single time.

I will keep an eye next time I travel. (and yes - I am on DHCP so my IP changes - causes me enough headaches with some softwares so I notice...)

Oh thank god. I'd just about given up on this. Logging in once a month isn't a huge hassle. Well, on my laptop. It tends to be more of a hassle on my iPad. And my android tablet. And especially my phone with it's tiny keyboard. (And occasional media PC and/or netbook.)

First world (developer's) problems, indeed.

Just glad it's fixed. I owe you a beer, guido.

(And AnnieMod - I agree with you on the IP thing. I roam the wifi with my phone {no data plan} and have never noticed having to log in. I'm going to pay extra attention now.)

>9

Apologies. No. It's not all cookies. It's only related to posting on Talk somehow. If you start to post to Talk, then change your IP, it balks.

Oh, you mean change IPs in the MIDDLE of composing a message, right?

Right.

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

Hm - I tend to start messages at home and post at airports occasionally but I would usually reload to see for new comments (which probably clears whatever balks). Good to know though.

This must mean that my ISP changes my IP mid-session. I almost never need to sign in when I come to LT, but every now and then I get signed out in the middle of doing something.