Bungie.net Community
This topic has moved here: Subject: Failure to sign in
  • Subject: Failure to sign in
  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • of 3
Subject: Failure to sign in

Usually when I try to sign into BNet, it goes something like this...

Open Homepage > Open Bungie.net > Click "Sign In" > Enter sign-in information > Click "Sign In" > Takes me back to the home page > I click "Sign in" again > Takes me back to the homepage, only now I'm actually signed in (I don't know why I have to do it twice) > Click on "Welcome, SPARTANofSPEED!" and go to my main page.

However, sometimes it goes like this...

Open Homepage > Open Bungie.net > Click "Sign In" > Enter sign-in information > Click "Sign In" > Takes me back to the home page > I click "Sign in" again > I get an error message saying Internet Explorer could not load the page > I click "Refresh" > Takes me back to the homepage, only now I'm actually signed in (I don't know why I have to do it twice) > Click on "Welcome, SPARTANofSPEED!" and go to my main page.

Does anyone know why it might have this variation, what it might mean, or why it only does it about 10% of the time?

  • 01.28.2008 4:18 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

sometimes I log in and it logs me back out. Just gp to a forum and it will usually log you back in automatically.

  • 01.28.2008 4:21 PM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Talk to the Soul | ~B.B. | Know Your Duardo |  | Hero | ISFJ | 77135 | 94371

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

Same for me. I sign in but I'm not signed in. So I click again and the page refreshes and I'm signed in.

  • 01.28.2008 4:22 PM PDT

Posted by: SPARTANofSPEED
I get an error message saying Internet Explorer could not load the page > I click "Refresh"


I meant this part more than the fact that I have to sign in twice. Everybody has to do that. I meant these two steps specifically.

  • 01.29.2008 8:31 AM PDT

That's happened to me a couple times. I try to sign in but it takes a second attempt for it to actually work.
I say, roll with it, and be thankful that it works. It could be worse, right?

  • 01.29.2008 8:45 AM PDT

In the heart of Africa, at the dawn of time. They built it.
Posted by: x Foman123 x
S3NATOR has brilliantly taken the next philosophical and theoretical step, and advanced mankind once more. For that, I'm forever grateful.

*lollernadoes*

This use to happen to me. The only way I was able to fix it was by checking the "remember my password" box. Now it signs in automatically and it works every time.

S3N

  • 01.29.2008 8:57 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Elder Mythic Member
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Posted by: Primum Agmen
A tosser is the same as a wanker. To toss oneself off is to fondle the trouser weasel.


Achronos

Joe Staten

Uhh maybe you could try clearing your cookies cache and next time you sign in click on remember my ID and password.

  • 01.29.2008 10:08 AM PDT

Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
twitter: http://twitter.com/Achronos

"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Don't do that, that is HORRIBLY insecure - you're just asking to have your account taken over.

  • 01.29.2008 10:36 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

Posted by: Duardo
Same for me. I sign in but I'm not signed in. So I click again and the page refreshes and I'm signed in.


Me too.
I now use the "secure login" or whatever, that fixed the problem.
EDIT: Signs in using the "Enhanced security" option.

Also, Achronos. What do you want him to do if what he does is super-not-good?

[Edited on 01.29.2008 10:40 AM PST]

  • 01.29.2008 10:38 AM PDT

Hi I'm RT and I like to argue!

Posted by: Achronos
Don't do that, that is HORRIBLY insecure - you're just asking to have your account taken over.

Um...don't do what, specifically?

  • 01.29.2008 10:45 AM PDT

Guys, I appreciate the sticky, but I don't think you are understanding the problem. Everybody has to sign in twice. There is nothing that can be done about that. My problem is that when I go to hit "sign in" a second time, I get an error message saying the IE can't load the page. I just want to know why I get the error message.

  • 01.29.2008 10:47 AM PDT

Posted by: Ninja2000
I say, roll with it, and be thankful that it works. It could be worse, right?
Yea, it could. The first time I sign in, every time, it tells me incorrect password. I then re-type in my password and I Sign In successfully. Again, it does this every time and I am not entering it in wrong the first time. It's some crap LiveID server problem I am guessing.

  • 01.29.2008 10:57 AM PDT

In the heart of Africa, at the dawn of time. They built it.
Posted by: x Foman123 x
S3NATOR has brilliantly taken the next philosophical and theoretical step, and advanced mankind once more. For that, I'm forever grateful.

*lollernadoes*

Posted by: Achronos
Don't do that, that is HORRIBLY insecure - you're just asking to have your account taken over.

Even if it's on a private password protected computer with up to date Virus/spyware protection that no one else has access too?

  • 01.29.2008 11:09 AM PDT

Posted by: Achronos
I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

I have set it on "remember me" or whatever it is, but still I have to click twice or even three times...

  • 01.29.2008 11:21 AM PDT

Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
twitter: http://twitter.com/Achronos

"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

No, they don't. Under normal operation, bungie.net only accepts the cookies from passport's main server if you recently clicked sign-in. There's basically a time limit that starts the moment the button is rendered to when a sign in cookie has to be received from passport's servers (i.e., you finish logging in).

What's happening is that if you either wait too long to hit sign in, or take a while to type, or things are just being slow, you'll successfully sign in at passport, but then bungie.net will discard the login cookies because they are too stale. Slow connections will see this more often. However, you are still logged in, bungie.net just won't notice until you hit signin again beause it needs fresh login cookies to validate they are real.

I don't know why you're getting an IE error message sometime, without more detail. For example, is the error from our server? It sounds as if it isn't, and may be something on your end.

Posted by: SPARTANofSPEED
Guys, I appreciate the sticky, but I don't think you are understanding the problem. Everybody has to sign in twice. There is nothing that can be done about that. My problem is that when I go to hit "sign in" a second time, I get an error message saying the IE can't load the page. I just want to know why I get the error message.

  • 01.29.2008 11:25 AM PDT

Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
twitter: http://twitter.com/Achronos

"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

And one failure in that chain gives an attacker access to your bungie.net account, your xbox live account, and anything else you use your Live ID for (Hotmail, msn, spaces, zune, etc.)

I'd turn off the option to save the password if I could.

Posted by: S3NATOR
Even if it's on a private password protected computer with up to date Virus/spyware protection that no one else has access too?

  • 01.29.2008 11:26 AM PDT

In the heart of Africa, at the dawn of time. They built it.
Posted by: x Foman123 x
S3NATOR has brilliantly taken the next philosophical and theoretical step, and advanced mankind once more. For that, I'm forever grateful.

*lollernadoes*

Posted by: Achronos
And one failure in that chain gives an attacker access to your bungie.net account, your xbox live account, and anything else you use your Live ID for (Hotmail, msn, spaces, zune, etc.)

I'd turn off the option to save the password if I could.

Posted by: S3NATOR
Even if it's on a private password protected computer with up to date Virus/spyware protection that no one else has access too?

You sound like my network admin. LOL :p

  • 01.29.2008 11:44 AM PDT

That's how all network admins sound... They think that everyone is out to get them.

Personally, I take every opportunity I (logically) can to save my passwords on the computer I'm using. I say that knowing that any computer I save my passwords on is not accessible to anyone I don't see on a daily basis and fully trust.

  • 01.29.2008 12:35 PM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

***Aberrant Designs***

Finished the fight on September 26,2007, 10:49pm EST
Remembered Reach on September 15th, 2010 9:30pm EST

damn. I have had "remeber username name and password" for a year.

Whoops.

  • 01.29.2008 12:40 PM PDT
  • gamertag: Cas7er
  • user homepage:

Posted by: Achronos
And one failure in that chain gives an attacker access to your bungie.net account, your xbox live account, and anything else you use your Live ID for (Hotmail, msn, spaces, zune, etc.)

I'd turn off the option to save the password if I could.

Posted by: S3NATOR
Even if it's on a private password protected computer with up to date Virus/spyware protection that no one else has access too?


This happens to me sometimes and I never enable "Save my Password". Should I be worried?

  • 01.29.2008 1:21 PM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

Basically, you should never opt to have your WLID password and email "remembered", in the long run you are asking for it. Even when windows wants to prompt me to remember my passwords I say no for good measure.

Safe computing starts with you being responsible for passwords, security questions and information. You can have all the up to date software and such but that's not going to stop you from clicking that myspace link or link in your email that gets your password phished and then BLAM! All of that good stuff goes away.

  • 01.29.2008 1:33 PM PDT
  • gamertag: Cas7er
  • user homepage:

Posted by: Yoozel
Basically, you should never opt to have your WLID password and email "remembered", in the long run you are asking for it. Even when windows wants to prompt me to remember my passwords I say no for good measure.

Safe computing starts with you being responsible for passwords, security questions and information. You can have all the up to date software and such but that's not going to stop you from clicking that myspace link or link in your email that gets your password phished and then BLAM! All of that good stuff goes away.


Firefox, even Windows isn't set to save passwords or enter my information into appropriate fields. It does remember my email address (but that should be fine, on my personal computer, right?) but never the password. I log in my password each time. Soemtimes though, this still happens where it reloads the page but I have to click sign in again for B.net to recognize that I am actually signed in......Am I still at some sort of risk? Should I turn off "Remember my Username?" function?

  • 01.29.2008 1:48 PM PDT

>> Eternal War
Help save humanity! Join the epic war against the invading Vallcry!

I am a proud user of correct spelling and grammar.

Mine is checked to remember the e-mail address only, but when I go to sign in, nothing appears in that text field. Some help would be well-appreciated. :/

  • 01.29.2008 1:57 PM PDT

  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • of 3