Sessions change with IE

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My (still under development) website: http://passport_photo_validator.onthegosystems.com causes Explorer to change sessions every call. No matter what I click on any page, a new session is generated. When I look at the log, I see that every call that's made from IE gets a new session.

It doesn't happen on Firefox. Sessions behave normally.

More strange is that it doesn't happen on neither (Explorer, nor FF) on the development machine.

Any suggestions on how I can debug this?

What can I do to start poking around on what the browser needs to get from the server in order to continue a session?

Thanks, Amir

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helzer wrote:

My (still under development) website: http://passport_photo_validator.onthegosystems.com causes Explorer to change sessions every call. No matter what I click on any page, a new session is generated. When I look at the log, I see that every call that's made from IE gets a new session.

It doesn't happen on Firefox. Sessions behave normally.

More strange is that it doesn't happen on neither (Explorer, nor FF) on the development machine.

Any suggestions on how I can debug this?

What can I do to start poking around on what the browser needs to get from the server in order to continue a session?

IE is too stupid to handle URL's with underscores. Replace with dash (-) and your problems will go away. On a related note, if you have two different apps one on example.com and another on www.example.com IE will fail to produce the right cookie for the www.example.com site.

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Hi Jacob,

That fixed it.

Do you think that IE will work OK for two domains like this: xxx.example.com yyy.example.com

(but no example.com)

Thanks, Amir

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helzer wrote:

Hi Jacob,

That fixed it.

Do you think that IE will work OK for two domains like this: xxx.example.com yyy.example.com

Yes, that should work.

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Jacob Atzen wrote:

IE is too stupid to handle URL's with underscores.

Is it possible that uppercase causes the same problem?