>Since I've never *knowingly* used cookies, I'm fairly ignorant >of how to handle them with CF...so, when you say "turned cookies on", or, >"turned cookies off" in the Application.cfm, can you show me the code >that you used to do that? > >(I will go and research the docs and study cookie use, but just looking for >a quick answer for now to make sure there's not something I can put in the >Application.cfm pages of these sites to stop this problem...)
You don't actually explicitly use <cfcookie> to manage this. Just setting client variables automatically creates a cookie on the user's machine that stored the CFID/CFTOKEN combination that CF will use to retrieve all client variables on each page request. By setting the clientmanagement, sessionmanagement, or setdomaincookies attribute to "yes", you are, in effect, authorizing the CF server to place this cookie on the user's machine. This cookie's contents is how CF can then differentiate between the different clients. One thing I thought I remembered reading somewhere a while back (sorry to be so vague!) is that IE 6 will reject the cookie trying to be set if your site does not use a compact privacy policy. This, in combination with a higher default security setting, was Microsoft's way of "increasing" security. If you go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy, you will see the default setting of Medium and the first description of what that setting does is a reference to this privacy policy issue. If you do need to generate a privacy policy, IBM's developer site has a nice little tool to automatically build one for you. Go and search their site, as I don't have the link handy. Regards, Dave. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
