On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Chris Withers wrote:
Sebastian Luehnsdorf wrote:
i'm having a strange problem with cookie based user authentication with ms internet explorer 5.5 on windows. it seems that the browser (but only this version and only under windows!) seems to "forget" its cookies, which results in an immediate logout. does anybody have similar experiences or a even solution?
I've had this problem occasionally with other versions of IE. I wonder whether you're setting the path on cookies correctly?
That's all I can think of...
Anyone else noticed this?
cheers,
Chris
well, i am using the following bit of code: RESPONSE.setCookie('__ac', token, path='/', expires='0') where token is a valid authentication id (i could check that). when i tried to set the domain to anything (empty string, hostname with & without port, ip address with & without port), all browsers had problems with the authentication... ciao, basti -------------------------------------------------------------------------- sebastian f. luehnsdorf beehive elektronische medien gmbh -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://basti.beehive.de http://www.beehive.de mailto:basti@beehive.de mailto:service@beehive.de http://www.zope.de fon: (+49 30) 84 78 20 http://www.i-surf.de fax: (+49 30) 84 78 22 99