Timeout error after login page

[wpexpertsio]

Timeout error after login page

[oobi]

I can offer a personal observation here based on our recent experience with our own host. The plugin works fine in our development environment and on various other servers, but not on this one host.

We boiled it down to the presence of the 'testcookie' hidden field on the login form.

<input type="hidden" name="testcookie" value="1" />

I generated a static form based on the generated markup (form.php) and had it submit to itself on the problem server and we can replicate the timeout. It sounds like some kind of filtering gear at the host end (they say it works fine inside their own network).

Changing the fieldname to anything else allowed it to work:

<input type="hidden" name="anythingelse" value="1" />

I haven't yet gotten to looking into the purpose of that field but if it's a possibility to rename or remove it that might provide the easiest solution (for us at least - your mileage may vary).

I'm waiting on a response from the host to see if they can track down the root cause.

Test form attached for reference
form2.zip

[jackmahoney]

I'm getting 408 too