Having to sign on every time I visit SMC

I'm registered, & I click on "Remember Me" when I Sign On, but I have to do this every time I visit SMC. Why is this?

If I had to guess, SMC sets a cookie when you click 'remember me'. Many of us (myself included) have various privacy applications that delete cookies.

Here's the thing. A cookie is a file that's kept in a certain directory that's well known to all web pages.

A well behaved page like SMC would execute a command that searches for a specific cookie by name. That cookie would have something that gives it your user id/password. A well behaved site wouldn't actually store your user information. It would either encrypt it in some way or store a key to your user information that would be stored at SMC. Encryption would be preferred.

A well behaved but incompetently designed site might store your information in an easily decodable way. Or it might just store your user id and password.

But a badly behaved site can download all your cookie files and go shopping for cookies that contain sloppy information.

Also, cookie files tend to accumulate. So there are utilities that clean out the cookie files based on age. I have a utility that just goes scorched earth and deletes them all. I also use a password manager (LastPass) that fills in my user ID and passwords. Some of my user information is unprotected in LastPass. Much of it is password protected using a 'master password' for LastPass.

In most cases, this is a browser issue because something gets "stuck" in the SMC related cookie(s). Log out of SMC, remove the SMC cookies manually, shut down the browser, restart the browser and then logon, being sure to have the "remember me" box checked.

Jim
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Firefox - don't know about other browsers - has settings where you can keep cookies from the primary site across restarts but can be set to delete 3rd party cookies on browser shutdown. That setting seems to work out pretty well for me.

Resolved. I had set up cookies for this site, but had used www.sawmillcreek.org. I changed it to https://sawmillcreek.org and it worked. Getting older.:(