Only asks password once?

  • My password protected site only asks for password once and then seems to store it in cookies unasked? What gives?

    I have one password protected site on my webpage for my customers(each with their personal password(using Multipass for pages plugin)) but say a customer opens the protected page on a shared computer, it never asks the password again? Even if you close the window?

    Is there something I need to do to disable cookies for that site?

    Please help ??

    Thank you

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  • That’s the way “sessions” work – you login, a cookie is generated and stored (generally unasked unless the browser is configured differently – you logged in and the server and browser assume by logging in you’re okay with a session cookie), and only expires when the cookie is removed or after a period of time. And unless you set the cookies yourself or manage WordPress’ cookies outside of the defaults, than a session can last up to 14 days (if the “remember me” box is checked), 48 hours (the cookie default) or upon browser closed (connection closed). There are plugins that allow you to change the default session timeout though. You might look into these plugins if you want to reduce the session time.

    Thread Starter juliamag

    (@juliamag)

    Why doesn’t this happen on Facebook for example?

    If I sign in on Facebook and then close the browser, I have to sign back in again.

    Facebook’s sessions are set up differently (different applications, different programmers, therefor different way to handle cookies and sessions).

    Facebook probably does some server to browser polling to determine if the browser is still connected. But if the browser is no longer connected, the session is expired, requiring re-logging in.

    WordPress doesn’t do this – it’s default behavior is to set a session time limit of 48 hours, connected or not. If you don’t like this behavior, you can find plugins to change these session settings.

    Best quality of Word Press development is easy to manage and extremely user friendly.

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