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But it really isn't.
I had to login (via Steam) multiple times just in the last few hours.
This has always affected me.
What is extremely weird is that this happens multiple times per day (sometimes I get the impression it happens per visit, but not quite).
But only on my laptop (Ubuntu 18.04).
On my main rig (Manjaro), this never happens. Or it only happens once per month or so when I guess the Steam auth lifetime ends.
Both are active at the same time and use the same browser (Chrome) - could this "at the same time" be part of the problem?
I also use Chrome to sync open websites/account/etc. across devices, but afaik that does not include cookies, so it probably wouldn't affect this.
This is also the only website with that behavior.
Last edited by GamingOnLinux Bot on 19 Dec 2019 at 7:30 pm UTC
What could even be the difference, given the browser is the same.
Which plugins do you know that do it? Maybe it is one of mine.
I'll likely come back to this tomorrow as I'll be back on the laptop then...
I have two gol_session cookies, which is not the case on desktop.
Before login:
{"name": "gol_session",
"value": "d0fc08de8218929e93086436a6a57ff9",
"domain": ".gamingonlinux.com",
"hostOnly": false,
"path": "/",
"secure": true,
"httpOnly": false,
"session": false,
"expirationDate": 1578240874,
"storeId": "firefox-default",
"sameSite": "no_restriction",
"firstPartyDomain": ""
}, {
"name": "gol_session",
"value": "kOmA7s%2Fwr5EX.3QzHpcmes9CK4ci1BYV9Uefd",
"domain": "www.gamingonlinux.com",
"hostOnly": true,
"path": "/",
"secure": true,
"httpOnly": true,
"session": false,
"expirationDate": 1581462021,
"storeId": "firefox-default",
"sameSite": "no_restriction",
"firstPartyDomain": ""
}
After login:
{"name": "gol_session",
"value": "d0fc08de8218929e93086436a6a57ff9",
"domain": ".gamingonlinux.com",
"hostOnly": false,
"path": "/",
"secure": true,
"httpOnly": false,
"session": false,
"expirationDate": 1578240874,
"storeId": "firefox-default",
"sameSite": "no_restriction",
"firstPartyDomain": ""
},
{
"name": "gol_session",
"value": "nkS3GaEz4Op0.cLBhgYWQKCuRnhWiUzJYd%2FKn",
"domain": "www.gamingonlinux.com",
"hostOnly": true,
"path": "/",
"secure": true,
"httpOnly": true,
"session": false,
"expirationDate": 1581782867,
"storeId": "firefox-default",
"sameSite": "no_restriction",
"firstPartyDomain": ""
}
One of the two is httpOnly; I don’t know if that helps. I saved the rest of my cookies from these two snapshots in case you need them, but I figured I shouldn’t post a PHPSESSID publicly.
On desktop, for comparison:
{"name": "gol_session",
"value": "2%2Bdt9vaubjQP.jHTarNvKGbjfO0hNNO5Uyuw%2F",
"domain": "www.gamingonlinux.com",
"hostOnly": true,
"path": "/",
"secure": true,
"httpOnly": true,
"session": false,
"expirationDate": 1581782205,
"storeId": "firefox-default",
"sameSite": "no_restriction",
"firstPartyDomain": ""
}
This old double gol_session was the problem.
Hopefully you can find a way to do this on the server-side. Maybe checking for double cookies and delete the one that does not have the dot.
Will consider this solved :)