I'd suspect the cflocation and/or cookies - if it doesn't have addtoken set, and there's problems with the cookies, session vars won't know which session they're part of. Not sure why that would change all of a sudden, though.
I had a problem with an organization once where they stripped all javascript out of web pages without telling anyone. Did a number on my client-side activity! Chris Norloff ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- from: "Smith, Don , , WHS/PSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:50:30 -0400 >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 > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. 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
