[Zope] IE 5.0 and Session Management.

[Anthony Baxter]

Hm. I've tried it with IE5 and I seem to recall that it worked
ok. It's possible that the cookie value is of a form that IE5
doesn't like. Try tweaking the cookie name generation code.

Anthony

>>> Timothy Grant wrote
> Hi all,
> 
> I just got bit by a really interesting something, I have a resolution,
> but I'd like to get a resolution to the problem.
> 
> I do all my development work on Linux using Netscape Navigator. My
> client has Netscape running in their home office. Everything works great
> on my machine and on my clients machines in their home office.
> However...
> 
> ...They have another office that is currently running IE5.0 everywhere.
> My programme crashes beautifully when run under IE5.0. I think the
> problem has something to do with cookies and Session management, but am
> at a loss as to just what is wrong.
> 
> Here's the details: I use SQLSession for session management. It works
> great for all my users on Netscape, if I display the entire request
> using <dtml-var REQUEST> I see the SESSION key and all of its contents.
> If I'm on IE5.0, and go to the same URL, the SESSION key appears to be
> completely empty.
> 
> I have turned off *all* security settings on IE5.0 just in case it was a
> security issue, but to no avail. 
> 
> Any ideas would be phenomenally appreciated.
> 
> -- 
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