CakePHP keeps logging me out

Question

Recently i have made three Cake Apps and all three share this problem. The config is mostly stock and i use this as the session options.

Configure::write('Session', array(
    'defaults' => 'php',
    'cookie' => 'test'
));

After lots of googling everyone just suggests that the security level is too high, but i have never changed this value, it's:

Configure::write('Security.level', 'medium');

Edit: I have also tried with low security and no change.

I am only using basic auth to check if the user is logged in or not.

After logging in the cookie is set to expire three hours later and the expire date doesn't update until I log in again, is this normal?

I cant seem to replicate the problem at all, sometimes I will log in and the very next click will log me out again and other times it will last a while.

I am using Chrome on Windows 7 and there is no AJAX on the website.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Are you using Ajax. Is the problem only happening in IE?

IE uses a different Browser Agent string for Ajax calls to the browser itself. For extra security, Cake checks the browser agent and, in the case of IE, thinks another browser is trying to hijack the session as the agent is different.

You can disable this check with:

Configure::write('Session.checkAgent', false);