For the "experts" on this board, this is the issue from what I can tell.
I've traced the redirect paths when logging into the Avast forum and no matter which link is used the final URL redirect always ends up "
https://forum.avast.com/?nologin=1".
This is the Avast forum login page.
What should happen as far as I can see is that this URL "
https://id.avast.com/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.avast.com" should take the user to a LOGGED-IN forum page. If you notice
-midnight's attachment shows this URL (that in this case ends up hung).
For some reason it appears I'm getting redirected to this "
https://forum.avast.com/?nologin=1" URL all the time which may be the problem.
I've shut-down cold and then rebooted which all you "experts" should know clears (flushes) the DNS cache. I've also done a reset of my ISP server to clear any possible DNS cache that might be there.
I'd like to know from anyone whether they also get redirected to this "
https://forum.avast.com/?nologin=1" URL like in my case?
And if this is not the case for anyone else then why do I have this issue when others do not?
Using IE to click on the "login" tab in the Avast forum page appears to do absolutely nothing, it simply ends up on the same page and same "
https://forum.avast.com/?nologin=1" URL.
Other browsers, Pale Moon, Firefox will actually be redirected to the page I've attached previously. Chrome appears to refresh the page but to the same "
https://forum.avast.com/?nologin=1" URL web page as well.
I can only login using "privacy" browser options i.e. IE "InPrivate Browsing", Chrome "Incongnito", FF "New Private Window" etc. Doing this when I click on the "login" link it takes me to the "
https://id.avast.com/?target=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.avast.com#login" URL which is the Avast login page and then when logging in I get directed to "
https://forum.avast.com/" which is the forum.
Of course if I'm logged in to the forum (after using a "privacy" page" then all of these links go directly to the logged-in Avast forum, but if I'm not logged in then any of the regular browser windows (not "privacy" windows) fail to get me to the Avast forum in ALL browsers.
If I don't use the "Privacy" browser settings all I get directed to is the "
https://forum.avast.com/?nologin=1" URL repeatedly (which is where I start from) and never do reach the actual Avast LOGIN-PAGE. Again, as I've posted before I've tried disabling all add-ons that do any "blocking" in each of the 4 browsers which makes no difference.
I've used multiple ISP's (high speed AT&T is my ISP, but also tried free dail-up ISP's on more than one computer and using more than one OS and still get the same thing).
Anyone have any ideas.