Logging in to WGA

[sandlanders]

Hey, I was online in the WGA site last night when my internet connection kicked me out, so I just shut down for the night. I hadn’t had the chance to log out.

Now, tonight when I went online, I visited a few other sites before coming to the WGA (I know–it should be my home page), and I appeared as being an online user without even logging in.

Did “sandlanders” show up as being on the WGA site all that time, like 24 hours? Or was it just when I re-entered the WGA? I don’t want people thinking I’m a 24-hours-a-day WGA forum junkie!

[marc_54140]

Yup!

[K0rpl]

Whats wrong with being a 24 hour Junkie!!!

I always have the Computer logged in here. Probaly going on 15 Months.. So, I guess that would be about 10,800 hours, give or take…

Um… Yep!

[cheezehead]

@sandlanders wrote:

Hey, I was online in the WGA site last night when my internet connection kicked me out, so I just shut down for the night. I hadn’t had the chance to log out.

Now, tonight when I went online, I visited a few other sites before coming to the WGA (I know–it should be my home page), and I appeared as being an online user without even logging in.

Did “sandlanders” show up as being on the WGA site all that time, like 24 hours? Or was it just when I re-entered the WGA? I don’t want people thinking I’m a 24-hours-a-day WGA forum junkie!

Um Jeremey step in here is I don’t have this right but it cuz of cookies, bits of info that your computer stores. If you do not log off or clean your cookies, you should be able to get on the site with out logging on all the time.

[Mathman]

@cheezehead wrote:

@sandlanders wrote:

Hey, I was online in the WGA site last night when my internet connection kicked me out, so I just shut down for the night. I hadn’t had the chance to log out.

Now, tonight when I went online, I visited a few other sites before coming to the WGA (I know–it should be my home page), and I appeared as being an online user without even logging in.

Did “sandlanders” show up as being on the WGA site all that time, like 24 hours? Or was it just when I re-entered the WGA? I don’t want people thinking I’m a 24-hours-a-day WGA forum junkie!

Um Jeremey step in here is I don’t have this right but it cuz of cookies, bits of info that your computer stores. If you do not log off or clean your cookies, you should be able to get on the site with out logging on all the time.

Your computer saves your log in unless you clear your temp files. You were not logged into the site if you weren’t on your computer. I hope this helps.

[Ray]

I would think that you would be pleased that you are remembered 😀

[sandlanders]

Thank you. We are pleased to be remembered. It’s nice to know that we live on in cyberspace.

When old geocachers die, what are the coordinates to enter for the final destination?

And by the way, we’re the only ones logged in now, except for some guests.

Everyone out caching in the @#$%&* cold and snow?!

[Jeremy]

Sorry for the late reply… but yes, when you log into WGA the site, you are given a “cookie” that expires in 30 days. As long as your browser accepts this cookie and you don’t get rid of it, this essentially saves a record of what user was last active on your computer so you don’t have to log on each time you visit.

However, you are only shown as being “active” or in the Who’s Online list if you actually do something (i.e. request a page) within 5 minutes. So you would not have been in the list for 24 hours straight! And there are only certain parts of the website where your activity causes you to be shown as online.

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