I too have seen this on one of our client's server, that I do not manage. Where I first found it was a job app that used different includes for different jobs. When the data was inserted into the database about 15%-20% of the records would not have a value from the session. Thus you could not tell what job they were applying for. I never did track down the exact problem I fix it by passing the job ID in the url line.
Are cookies enabled? Check to see if IE is set to default security settings. Under some of the higher settings cookies are disabled and since sessions are "tracked" via the CFID and CFTOKEN cookies session vars will not work. You can turn on "Debugging Options - Show Variables" on the server and check to see if the CFID and CFTOKEN cookies are being written. That will show up in the browser under the CGI Variables: HTTP_COOKIE If you find the problem please let me know. So far this has not been a problem for my servers. Mark W. Breneman -Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Developer -Network / Web Server Administrator Vivid Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Don , , WHS/PSD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:51 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Big problem- session vars not saved in IE6 on CF5 I am having a big problem with an old standard login system. This is the most simple login system I know and have used it for years. It consists of: Login form page Login action page Main page Session variables tracking who is logged in The user enters in their login acct, the action page compares it against the db, then sets some session variables and uses cflocation to forward them to a new page or back to the login page if they fail. The application page checks for the session variable to see if they're logged in and uses cflocation to send them back to the login page if the var doesn't exist. Up until August 19 it worked fine on all browsers. After then, it works fine on about 75% of the instances of IE6 in our enterprise. It fails on about 1 out of 4 IE installations including my own! What happens is the user logs in, the database accepts the login and uses cflocation to send them to the main page. Then Application.cfm checks to see if they have the correct session variable and uses cflocation to forward them to the login page. I can display the session vars at the bottom of the login action page during testing, but as soon as I turn cflocation back on, the session variables do not exist on the main page after the action page. They disappear. Yes they exist on most instances of IE and they exist in every single instance of NS that I tested. I have a working version of IE 6 that can login with no problem- I have modified my internet options (ESPECIALLY the cookies/privacy options) to match that machine exactly, but still the problems persist on my machine. The only thing that I did that could have affected this on August 19 was that I remember that morning getting a request to log into MS Passport to access my hotmail account. Other than that, I changed none of this code. Since 25% of our users seem to be affected by this problem, it's a big deal for us. I have asked EVERYONE about this and no one has seen this one before. Have any of you heard about this before or does anyone have any suggestions of how to go about debugging this? Thanks, Don Smith ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
