IE6 can be a royal pain - cookie issues

Gaile

Joined: 2002-07-20
Posts: 1301
Posted: Sun, 2003-02-09 17:47

A few days ago I let Microsoft do it's usual auto-updating to fix their usual *security issues* etc with IE6.

Since then the only problem I was having was that I couldn't log into this site and stay logged on. Then last night it got to where I couldn't log on at all.

This morning I tried all the forums I'm registered at, and what I've had to do is add this site to the list that overrides my current cookie settings. I guess MS changed some cookie options and for some reason IE doesn't like Gallery cookies anymore...

...did someone remove the chocolate chips maybe? :wink:

Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else who uses IE6 is having issues with logging into forums.

Gaile

 
alindeman
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Joined: 2002-10-06
Posts: 8194
Posted: Sun, 2003-02-09 18:30

This is not a good thing (tm). Gallery uses PHP sessions, so if the underlying PHP session cookies don't work with IE6, they won't work in any other PHP application that uses PHP sessions :sad: Hopefully it's not that severe..

 
vallimar

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 487
Posted: Mon, 2003-02-10 00:39

It's possible that the update reset cookies permissions to a higher
different security level. IE6 has seperate security permissions for
cookies then previous versions do. You might want to check that.