RE: FN-FORUM: Sessions / framesets

date posted 21st January 2004 11:32

Dan

It's more likely to be the enhanced cookie handling options in IE6, basically the user can choose which if any sites to accept
cookies from - in IE6 look in Tools->Internet Options and the Privicy tab

I think the default security level blocks a lot of stuff including some sessions cookies.

HTH

Alan S

On 21 January 2004 11:35, Dan Norcott [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> Part of a website that was built in 1922 (by apes) has a frameset in order
> to conceal the fact that the site is actually sitting on an ugly domain...
> the title bar shows
>
> http://www.nicedomain.com
>
> and the content is coming from
>
> http://www.lkajsdlkqwlme.com/~asdasd
>
> like this:
>
>
> scrolling="auto" noresize marginheight=0 marginwidth=0>
>
>
> I appreciate that this is hateful.
>
> Now - in the ugly-url site, some sessions are started to record some user
> actions - they used to work fine (a while ago... months/years), but now they
> do not work in IE. The sessions are not stored at all. They work fine in
> Mozilla Firebird.
>
> I'm thinking that IE isn't working properly here because it's thinking it's
> on the nice domain and not reporting it's sessions/cookies to the ugly
> domain... which is a bit daft as it's only a frameset, and no
> cross-cleverness is actually happening at all.
>
> Has anyone else come across similar problems? I know I've rambled a bit,
> but hey - I'm still wearing my pyjamas and haven't had a cup of coffee yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan.