|
|
Posted by petersprc on 02/01/07 03:09
Kind of weird... Is he using any kind of other firewall software?
User could try clearing his cookies and retrying.
You could try adding the path and domain to the cookie just to see
what happens: setcookie('cookie', $val, time() + $exp, '/',
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
On Jan 31, 7:45 pm, "Ike" <r...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a username/sid pair for typical authentication. That is, for someone
> signing in under a given username, a sid is created, saved in both a cookie
> and the db on the server. This I am doing as follows:
>
> $timer = md5(time());
> $sid = $UserID . "+" . $timer. "+" . $country;
> SetCookie("ggcookie", $sid, time() + 86400 * 10000); //Set Cookie
> for 10000 days
> $query = "update associates set sid=\"$timer\" where
> username=\"$UserID\"";
>
> Thus, when another page is called, I immediately retrieve the value of the
> cookie as follows:
>
> if (!(isset($ggcookie))) {
> echo "cookie not set in browser.";
> exit;}
>
> $sidarray = explode("+", "$ggcookie");
>
> However, for one particular user I have, upon upgrading to MSIE 7, this no
> longer works as whenever he calls up a new page, he gets "cookie not set in
> browser". In looking at his security settings his Zone is "Internet," set to
> "Medium High" and his privacy policy is set to "Medium" (see below). I have
> duplicated these settings on my machine and am able to get and parse the
> cookie without any problem. I am wondering what may have changes with MSIE
> 7, or something I am missing, that is throwing this entire procedure for
> this particular user? Any ideas are greatly appreciated. -Ike
>
> "Medium" privacy settings call for
> -blocks third party cookies that do not have a privacy policy
> -blocks third party cookies that save information that can be used to
> contact you without your explicit consent
> -restricts first-party cookies that save information that can be used to
> contact you without your explicit consent
> (note, these are the same settings as on my machine which is working fine)
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|