Re: FN-FORUM: Problem with HTTP to HTTPS and sessions

date posted 11th December 2006 12:13



Duncan Glendinning wrote:
>
> Morning all,
>
> I was wondering if you could help me. The situation is this.. I have a
> form which passes some info on from a page on http to a page on https
> so it is secure.
> The user is logged in when they enter their details (on the http
> page), but when it is posted to the https page, the session seems to
> disappear.
> Is there something I don't know about sessions and https?
>
If you're using cookies to handle your sessions, remember that
http://www.mydomain.com and https://www.mydomain.com have a different
domain path so one will not be able to read cookies from the other.

-ben