IE7 cookie problem

Please take a capture with Fiddler (www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/help/log.asp) and send it to me (ericlaw @ microsoft). Thanks!

Eric Lawrence

PM - IE Networking

I'm not sure if I sent the mail to the right address, I sent it to ericlaw@microsoft.com, I assume your address is at .com

regards

This sounds like a big problem. Why hasn't Microsoft come up with a patch yet I can understand if this was an issue with an off brand computer, but my computer is a 4 month old Dell Demension.

Would I be better off reloading with an older version of IE Right now I have to use FireFox for half of the websites I go to for my company work -it's a true pain to have two web browsers to switch between. Especially when I've gone through 3 webpages to upload information to the company website (which takes 2 minutes) and at the end it says my session has expired which is set for 20 minutes. Then I have to load FoxFire and redo my work. You're going to lose me as an IE user if there isn't a patch soon!

Have the same problem my self with a couple of sites.

When closing popup-window it deletes the session-cookie from the original window. Must login again.

Is this designed or a bug that will be fixed

Works like a charm with ie6 and firefox.

Have stopped IE7 until problem solved.

I have the same problem. My company has an ASP.NET web app that uses popup windows for some of its features. Sometimes (but not always) when an IE7 user opens one of those popups, their session is lost in both the popup and the main window. It works fine in Firefox, Safari, and IE6. I can't find any info about this problem, other than this thread.

What is the cause of the problem Are there any workarounds When is a patch going to be available

Thanks,

Josh Yeager

I had a local homepage, and about once a week it would start doing this. It would keep doing it for a while, and then stop.

About a week ago, I changes my homepage to be an Internet site, and the problem hasn't happened since. But, it hasn't been long enough for me to definitively say that the problem is gone.

I also see this problem and have clients that do as well. We all have local homepages and use IE7 on XP SP2. I don't experience this problem on my home PC, which has Vista Utlimate Edition. No combination of settings, homepages, and scenarios made this problem appear on Vista.

Using a local homepage, this problem shows up when I navigate to a site by clicking on the link from the local homepage. However, the problem doesn't show up if I manually type in the URL and use the site from there (regardless of local vs. non-local homepage).

When I specify a non-local homepage and change no other setting, the problem goes away completely. It's a night and day difference in behavior, so it does seem as if having a local homepage is the difference.

Is there any acknowledgement from Microsoft on this behavior/problem, and/or possibly a fix for it A KB article would help explain the issue, provide workarounds, and help set expectations for those impacted by this.

Outstanding work on Fiddler.

Thanks for the feedback.

This is a known problem in IE when you have a local homepage or open IE from a file on disk, rather than starting IE by navigating to a remote site. The KB article will be published when the patch is available (we're working on this issue now).

Thanks,

Eric