forum bug?

ushere wrote on 9/13/2009, 6:42 AM

i'm getting an 'authentication required' pop-up on everything i do on the board.

pressing close sends it away quite happily and life continues uninterrupted (till the next pop-up).

is it me or a glitch in the board (cyberspace, the universe, etc?)

leslie

Comments

Richard Jones wrote on 9/13/2009, 6:59 AM

Hi Leslie,

Touch wood, I seem to be O.K. Not sure what I can suggest other than a note to Support (unless you've accidentally pushed a button of some sort on your anti-virus or anti-phishing programmes).

Regards,

Richard

Himanshu wrote on 9/13/2009, 7:00 AM

I thought it might be Firefox 3.5.3 update which occurred yesterday, but even IE8 is asking me for the password.

What's really odd is even Apple's site is doing something weird - keeps asking me for cookie confirmation (from the same site) even though I've already replied that cookies are acceptable for the session. I wonder if these two are related in any way.

lynn1102 wrote on 9/13/2009, 7:01 AM

I'm getting the same thing this morning. It was fine last nite. I doesn't even like my password.
I'm also using Firefox.

Lynn

MozartMan wrote on 9/13/2009, 7:08 AM

I was getting the same password prompt with Firefox 3.5.3. But now it is gone.

Tech Diver wrote on 9/13/2009, 7:22 AM

I got it this morning with IE8 but it disappeared as soon as I rebooted.

Peter

erikd wrote on 9/13/2009, 7:27 AM

I'm constantly getting it with Firefox 3.5.1. Won't accept my username and password.

JJKizak wrote on 9/13/2009, 7:34 AM

I constantly get it with IE8
JJK

Tim L wrote on 9/13/2009, 8:04 AM

I'm getting it also, with IE8, only with this forum. I don't get it clicking around other parts of the Sony Creative site, and I don't get it on any other sites I visit.

LJA wrote on 9/13/2009, 8:16 AM

Just signed on with Firefox 3.5.3. No problem here.

Himanshu wrote on 9/13/2009, 8:30 AM

Things are OK again i.e. no prompt for password. I haven't rebooted, and I haven't even restarted Firefox. Mysterious.

fordie wrote on 9/13/2009, 9:02 AM

Thats funny because its just started happening to me as I read this thread.
It happend once before, its quite annoying.
IE8 is the browser

gpsmikey wrote on 9/13/2009, 9:32 AM

Windoze XP - sp3, Firefox 3.5.3 (latest update) no problem here although I do sometimes see an issue with Firefox that may or may not be related. Periodically, if I go to check my Boeing retirement stuff, I get an "invalid redirection" in Firefox, but IE6 will do it just fine on the same machine. Other times, Firefox works fine. It almost sounds like a cookie issue of some sort (must be those diet cookies ??)

mikey

musicvid10 wrote on 9/13/2009, 9:46 AM

Just started getting it on every screen -- annoying!

musicvid10 wrote on 9/13/2009, 10:15 AM

Appears to be OK now -- I know that Madison likes to do their web maintenance on Sunday mornings, when all but us hardcore asocial types are doing something else.

Former user wrote on 9/13/2009, 11:05 AM

1:04 pm (US Central) I'm getting the login prompt running IE8...
1:52 pm (US Central) No more login prompt...
2:43 pm (US Central) It's back...

rs170a wrote on 9/13/2009, 11:30 AM

2:30 Eastern time and I'm getting the pop-up every time i change pages.
XPPro, SP2, Firefox 3.5.3
Extremely annoying !!!

Mike

Coursedesign wrote on 9/13/2009, 12:19 PM

I got it on my iPhone an hour ago, no problem on my desktop currently at least.

fordie wrote on 9/13/2009, 12:25 PM

Gone again..it was very annoying.

rmack350 wrote on 9/13/2009, 1:50 PM

Still have it here. 1:46 Pacific.

IE 7.0 and Firefox 3.5.3

For IE it asks 3 times per page. I think it's probably something with the SCS forum server using assets that require another password. Possibly an element at another domain or something.

rmack350 wrote on 9/13/2009, 1:52 PM

Firefox seems to ask for the password an unlimited number of times. IE asks 3 times.

Woodenmike wrote on 9/13/2009, 2:24 PM

firefox 3.5.3...everytime i try to open a post. this started right after Firefox and Microsoft updates...both had security fixes, which i suspect is the cause of this.

Steven Myers wrote on 9/13/2009, 2:56 PM

I've been getting the login pop-ups on and off. No need to respond, just hit ESC.

Yoyodyne wrote on 9/13/2009, 3:10 PM

I'm getting this too, driving me nuts - just started happening.

This is with google chrome.

John_Cline wrote on 9/13/2009, 3:13 PM

I'm getting this in Opera v10, Chrome and IE8. I have not upgraded anything in the last several days. Just clicking on cancel makes it go away, but it pops up again the next time I do anything on the forum. As was mentioned earlier, hitting ESC works, too.