If like me you routinely deny cookies without thinking about it, you can't log in
I already sent Steve email about this but I figured I'd list it here too.
To repro, turn off cookies altogether (including removing any cookies you aready have for this site), then attempt to log in.
At a minimum, you should get some sort of diagnostic, perhaps suggesting that if you are blocking cookies, you should not. (Maybe check if the referring page is the same you are landing on.)
Alternatively, since this is probably most likely to happen to first-time visitors who are deciding to register even though they weren't planning to, perhaps you could diagnose this earlier in the registration process -- try to set a cookie on the Register page, then if it's not set when you have submitted the registration and get the info page about the verification ticket having been sent to you by email, There Be Trouble.
Perhaps still more to the point, what's the use of attempting to set a cookie already when you visit the front page? It's not like it's going to be used for anything until you attempt to register, is it? (Just speculating here, though.)
Me, I reject any cookie anybody requests unless I see a real reason to accept it. That would be, for example, if I've just clicked on a link to register with the site.
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era
2006-06-19 01:23
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