This whole thread has been a good example of the reason to move CF applications
away from cookies completely and use session variables stored in a database.
The more developers do on the server side, the less client side configuration
problems need to be overcome.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: RE: URGENT! Frames and sessions

| Sorry - in both cases the same login page is displayed (refreshed) after
| submit.  No joy from either.
|
| Jim Davis
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: William H Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:11 PM
| To: CF-Community
| Subject: Re: URGENT! Frames and sessions
|
| the login works? or fails?
|
| if works, do you allow third party cookies in your browser?
| if fails, "dammit!"
|
| :-)
| will
|
| Jim Davis wrote:
|
| > I get the same behavior from both pages.
| >
| >
| > Jim Davis
| >
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: William H Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:14 PM
| > To: CF-Community
| > Subject: Re: URGENT! Frames and sessions
| >
| >
| > The frameset is hosted on a server in England and is essentially just
| a
| > big wrapper so that no one sees my URL
| >
| > on my end I don't have any frames, just CF templates that set a
| session
| > variable after a login. If I access the pages directly, everything
| works
| >
| > as it should, however If I access the pages via the frameset, logging
| in
| >
| > only brings up the login page.
| >
| > Perhaps it is something on my end, but I don't see what.
| >
| > how to access the frameset:
| > www.tde.alstom.com
| > click User Groups in the blue area at left
| >
| > how to access the page directly:
| > www.esca.com/usergroups
| >
| > login: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > password: testonly!
| >
| > will
| >
| > Jim Davis wrote:
| >
| > > As long as your content is coming from (and to) your server there
| > should
| > > be no problem - your sessions and log in should work.
| > >
| > >
| > > When you submit your framed page is the whole frameset being
| replaced
| > > (perhaps by an errant "target="_top" or forgotten framebuster code)?
| > In
| > > your case it sounds like only your content frame should be changed,
| > not
| > > the outside frame.
| > >
| > >
| > > Jim Davis
| > >
| > >
| > > -----Original Message-----
| > > From: William H Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:28 PM
| > > To: CF-Community
| > > Subject: URGENT! Frames and sessions
| > >
| > >
| > > All,
| > >
| > > I am being forced by an organization higher up the food chain to now
| > > only grant access to certain parts of our corporate external site
| via
| > > frameset.
| > >
| > > It's a domain name thing, they don't want us using ours anymore
| > > (www.esca.com) despite years of brand recognition in our industry.
| > >
| > > So here's the issue. many of the parts of the site they want
| accessed
| > > through the frameset are password protected and access is granted by
| > > reading a cookie value set from my site.
| > >
| > > Now, I did a bit of research because of the obvious third party
| cookie
| > > issues caused by frames, and I found that session management is
| > > "compatible" with frames (sort of). I set up a test and found that
| if
| > I
| > > access it directly (www.esca.com/blah url ) everything works fine
| > > session variable initiate and expire as requested, but if I access
| it
| > > via frames, the login doesn't work.
| > >
| > > What am I missing? Does the session have to be init'ed on the
| outside
| > > frame? If so can I init the session with _javascript_ and then write
| to
| > it
| > >
| > > with CF? I don't have control of the outside frame, it's hosted in
| > > England, but if I need to I can probably get something added there.
| > >
| > > The external frame is being handled in the OpenMarket CMS and my
| site
| > is
| > >
| > > all CFMX.
| > >
| > > Please help!
| > >
| > > --
| > >
| > > will
| > >
| > > ----
| > >
| > > William H Bowen
| > > Marketing Communications Manager
| > > ALSTOM EAI Corporation
| > >
| > >   _____
| > >
| > >
| >   _____
| >
| >
|   _____
|
|
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