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Forbidden Error When Trying To Log Out On Main Site

Discussion in 'Site Support' started by reekon_retro, Sep 17, 2012.

  1. reekon_retro

    reekon_retro Well-Known Member

    Sometimes when I try to log out on the main site a :Forbidden error message shows up. It sometimes happens after download and trying to return to the Frontpage. Can someone explain what's causing this?
     
  2. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    I've never received this problem...
    You can always log out on the forum. The main site and the forum is connected, so it will log you out on the main site.
     
  3. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    It happens because you log out from a members only page and are then being redirected back there. I'll prevent it from redirecting to those pages in the future.
     
  4. reekon_retro

    reekon_retro Well-Known Member

    So it's just a redirection loop error causing the server to think that I'm already logged out before logging and when I do press the log out tab, the error occurs right?
     
  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    No. You are logged in and on a page only visible to members. Then you click log out. You are now logged out and no longer allowed to view the page you were viewing, so you get an error.
     
  6. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    What are the member only pages?
     
  7. 2DamCerius

    2DamCerius My eyes for your brain...fair trade.

    Those pages are only for certain access to shared roms and/or other related details of the sort.
     
  8. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Download pages, mostly.
     
  9. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    But guests can access download pages...
     
  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    they access different ones.
     
  11. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    Okay.
     
  12. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    If you notice the URL has a lot of weird characters on the download pages, that's basically a security token to prevent people from sharing the page, each user as a unique link just for themselves. If they logout then the token changes and thus they get a forbidden page when redirected, or rather they did.
     
  13. necr0

    necr0 Well-Known Member

    Oh goody, you fixed it.