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Marketwatch.com not allowing logon

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:25 am
by Jojo999
I have an account at www.marketwatch.com. Lately, I have been unable to login on FF (but I can do so w/o problems on IE8). I enter my info in the login box, the login is accepted, there are no msgs, but I don't get logged in. This is the only site I seem to be having problems with.

I created a test profile and was able to login on FF. But this doesn't tell if NS is the culprit.

Can someone test by creating an ID at this site and see if NS might be the problem?

Re: Marketwatch.com not allowing logon

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:18 am
by Giorgio Maone
I tried and had apparently your same issue, but it seems just due to sloppy cookie checking code and easily worked around.
As soon as I refreshed the page, I was signed in.

Re: Marketwatch.com not allowing logon

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:56 pm
by Jojo999
OK, thanks.

I tried the refresh and yes, something strange is going on with cookies. On the first refresh, I could see that the cookie was no longer set for this site (in my status bar). Then I tried signing in again and then another refresh. This time it worked.

Those clowns at MW are poor technicians.