IE7 session variable bug ?

Hi

I developed a site about 6 months ago, written in Cold Fusion MX 7.

A simple log-in page creates a session struct() variable upon successful log-in and then re-directs the member to their login home page area. On the login home page area, a simple script runs to see if a session variable exists, and if it dosnt, redirects them back to the login page. This is so that people cant access their login home page directly, without logging in.

The site works fine in Mac OSX, all browsers and on PC, all browsers, except for IE 7.

Does IE 7 have a session bug Appears so.

Anyone else experienced session problems of this kind

Thanks in advance

Jason

I¡¯m having a similar problem running a ASP.Net 2.0 application (DotNetNuke). I have found, using Fiddler, that IE doesn¡¯t send the asp.net session cookie on request of javascript, so the server issue another session and log me out redirecting to login page. It happens in IE 6, but now is more frequent with IE 7 RC1. Other browsers works fine.

In web.config, look for anonymousIdentification section and httpcookies section, set the domain property on both to your domain. Example:

<anonymousIdentification
enabled="true"
cookieName=".ASPXANONYMOUS"
cookieTimeout="8000"
cookiePath="/"
cookieRequireSSL="false"
cookieSlidingExpiration="true"
cookieProtection="None"
domain="yourdomain.com"/>

Rgds

Hi Jason,

I develop websites with PHP and MySQL and I've experienced similar problems. My session variables just dissappear somewhere on the way once logged in. It works fine on IE6, FF, Netscape, Opera, except for IE7. Did you find any solution yet to overcome the problem Have Microsoft team been doing anything to finally fix the bug I doubt it, to be honest as today's January 27th, 2007 :-))))

Regards,
Aggie

Hi Aggie

its been a long time since I posted my original question, and cant for the life of me remember how I worked around it, but Im sure I just avoided IE7 in the end.

Sorry I cant be of any more help!

Jase

Although it's not a "clean" solution, I've managed through this problem using php's function "session_id()" and passing via POST or GET the session id.

When printing the session id after the session_start(), I've realized that each page has a different session id, so I've managed it "by hand".

Perhaps not the best solution, but it works.

Leonardo M. Ayala

http://www.lanoche.com.uy

Dear Dave,

I have been struggling with this problem for months now. It happens in IE6 and IE7 and the difficulty is that it doesn't happen all the time.

I did several tests setting cookies in 12 different ways and the cookies get accepted and set without any problem. For some reason the cookies are not send back to the server.

It is very difficult to describe the behavior because I don't have it on my computer. I get a lot of complaints that people can't sign in on one of my websites and the only information I can get from them is that they are using Windows XP SP2 and Internet Explorer 6 or 7.

Any suggestions how I can test or do you have a solution in the mean time

Thanks.

Agatka23 wrote:

Hi Jason, I develop websites with PHP and MySQL and I've experienced similar problems. My session variables just dissappear somewhere on the way once logged in. It works fine on IE6, FF, Netscape, Opera, except for IE7. Did you find any solution yet to overcome the problem Have Microsoft team been doing anything to finally fix the bug I doubt it, to be honest as today's January 27th, 2007 :-)))) Regards, Aggie