Posted by vic on 07/26/07 13:35

"Ian Hobson" <ian.hobson@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:bFPpi.1838$h11.494@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
> vic wrote:
>> My website login sets session variables when successfully logging into
>> the site and transfers control to a second page. However, when the new
>> page starts up there are no session variables so control is returned to
>> the login program. This is only failing on Vista Home machines IE7. It
>> works conrectly on Vista Ultimate, FF and XP computers with IE7.
>>
>> What I see is the cookie with the SESSION ID is not being created on the
>> failing machine so I assume a new session id is assigned. Cookies are
>> allowed and I can set cookies and it works ok.
>>
>> How can I force the cookie SESSION ID to be created??
>>
> Hi Vic,
>
> I have found that disabling Norton to be very effective.
>
> Having proved that is the problem replace it with an anti-virus that
> doesn't eat cookies.
>
> Regards
>
> Ian
>

Ian,

It's not anti-virus eating cookies because as I said it works with firefox
(cookie is there) but fails on 2 separate Vista Home machines (cookie is
missing).

Vic

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