Re: What's up with OTN logon verification?

Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in message news:<o5ehp0db42u46ntbsthupejnha05197uu8_at_4ax.com>...
> This seems to be a recurring problem for me, and I'm curious if anyone
> else is expriencing it. If I go to tahiti to look up an error msg or
> check a manual, it works fine until I click on the link to actually
> open the content of what I'm looking for. Some days it works just
> fine, others it asks me to log on, then rejects my userid/passwd. At
> this point, I can go thru the 'password reminder' routine to have my
> userid and password emailed to me. When I receive that (and they are
> exactly what I thought they were) I can cut'n'paste them into the
> logon fields -- and they are still rejected. There seems to be no
> rhyme or reason to this. Other areas of OTN seem to think I'm still
> logged on -- the screens always say "Welcome, Ed". And trying to
> find some means of reporting a problem with OTN itself seems to be a
> fool's errand.

I speculate they are using the AS web cacheing, with various timeouts in various places. I haven't seen the rejection of correct passwords recently. I've wondered how they resolve SSO when the otn and metalink passwords differ and things are redirecting back and forth (ie, circulating from metalink to otn to tahiti to otn to tahiti for a different version to otn). It seems to know that it is going to need to ask for a password from the "this page has both secure and insecure items" splash, but it doesn't actually ask unless I am pointed towards something where my login has timed out. That splash can be annoying when not necessary. Metalink seems to be more aggressive about logging you out as soon as you are gone.

Have you tried deleting all cookies?

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jsp?forum=29 the ones with multiple responses show that someone is watching.

jg

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