Blocking of session cookies is _not_ default IE6. IE6 will block
cookies if they are set by a third party by default, that's it.
Creating a p3p policy file can allow bypass of this.

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 jon
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003, 4:46:00 PM, you wrote:
JB> Richard,

JB> Is this happening in IE6? In this version, the default setting is to block all 
session cookies, unless the website has a programatic privicy policy or the user 
specifically adds the web domain to
JB> the privicy list. In other words the session cookie is never set!

JB> Keep in mind session cookies (CFID and CFTOKEN) are stored as a cookie on the 
client's machine. The client uses this information to pull the session variable. 

JB> So, this is not a Cold Fusion problem, but rather the way IE handles cookies. The 
workaround (other than using client variables) is to attached CFTOKEN and CFID into 
every URL and form-- this
JB> will bypass this issue and provide Cold Fusion with a method to look up session 
variables.

JB> Jeremy Brodie

>>Recently, we've discovered that if someone logs in to our website in IE, 
>>then goes ahead and clears out their cache and cookies while logged in, 
>>they will never again be able to log in to our website.  I'm pretty sure 
>>that this has something to do with the way that we use our session 
>>variables to track students, but I'm not sure.
JB> 
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