Can't log out

December 18, 2002 12:04 PM

Am I the only one having trouble logging out? I click "logout", and it just spins me around to the homepage, and I'm still logged in. Tried closing the browser, rebooting, etc. No dice. This has happened on multiple computers (public ones, unfortunately) that have previous had no problems with logging out.
posted by oissubke to Bugs at 12:04 PM (21 comments total)

Open the computer's case and wave a big magnet around. That should pretty much solve your problem...
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 12:06 PM on December 18, 2002

Disclaimer: I know how to get rid of the cookies if I really want to. I'm just wondering if there's a bug in the cookie killing script.
posted by oissubke at 12:10 PM on December 18, 2002

*takes out Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't Log Off Again" and looks for clues*
posted by MiguelCardoso at 12:16 PM on December 18, 2002

Let me work on this today, I'm pretty sure I know what the bug is.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:25 PM on December 18, 2002

Okay, you can work on it, but don't neglect the rest of your duties. And I want a full report on my desk before you leave tonight.
posted by timeistight at 12:40 PM on December 18, 2002

Okay, you can work on it, but don't neglect the rest of your duties. And I want a full report on my desk before you leave tonight.

Oh, and next Friday...is Hawaiian shirt day...so, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
posted by oissubke at 12:55 PM on December 18, 2002

It should work now. I think I fixed metatalk's logout as well.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:21 PM on December 18, 2002

Sweet! I fixed all the old problems in one swell foop:

- if you login at either MetaFilter or MetaTalk, you are automatically logged into both sites.

- when you logout of either site, you are fully logged out of both sites.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:23 PM on December 18, 2002

Great. Take the rest of the day off.
posted by yhbc at 1:29 PM on December 18, 2002

Swell foop?

Mord to your wother.
posted by Stan Chin at 1:30 PM on December 18, 2002

when you logout of either site, you are fully logged out of both sites

Yup, works for me.
posted by riffola at 1:35 PM on December 18, 2002

Actually the login unification works, to log out I still need to logout individually.
posted by riffola at 1:38 PM on December 18, 2002

Woo-hoo! Thanks, Matt. This was driving me nuts (well, okay, that's a bit of an overstatment) for the past week or 2, but I didn't post to MeTa b/c I just assumed that it was my lousy IE setup. (Which means that while I now have one less thing to blame on Bill Gates, I still have about a thousand left on the list.)
posted by scody at 1:48 PM on December 18, 2002

Cool - been a bugbear of mine that I have to log in and out at two locations. I have great plans for the extra 3 seconds I will now have on the third Monday of every third month, which is the only time I log out.

Seriously - thanks for this and every other tiny fix that you do without us even knowing, mathowie.
posted by dg at 2:07 PM on December 18, 2002

I fixed all the old problems in one swell foop

OT: I miss Wendell! Come back, Wendell!
posted by bradlands at 2:14 PM on December 18, 2002

brad's got it, that was a nod to a Wendell that used to grace these halls.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:16 PM on December 18, 2002

Unobserved utterances.
posted by cell divide at 2:33 PM on December 18, 2002

For those who came in late: Wendell's site is called OneSwellFoop.
posted by riffola at 2:43 PM on December 18, 2002

I'm guessing this is related to the recent changes: when I hit the front page, I'm presented with the logon form. Without logging in, I can't read the front page at all (once I login, it's fine). Metatalk does not give the same problem.
posted by skwm at 4:08 PM on December 18, 2002

(note: after logging in, then logging out, I can view the front page with no problem.)
posted by skwm at 4:09 PM on December 18, 2002

Thank you, Matt. You did a Very Good Thing.
posted by katieinshoes at 9:37 PM on December 18, 2002