My colleague has discovered the cause of the problem. Essentially the
session information was not getting propagated via the cookie(s) even though
all the settings were correct. It turned out that the problem had nothing to
do with FarCry or the client settings (even more confusing was that the site
worked in Firefox, just not IE).

The bug has to do with underscores in the domain name. We had an underscore
in the sub-domain of the URL for the FarCry site. Basically, IE doesn't like
underscores and there is some kind of a cookie problem where they don't get
set, it is a known issue, see:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;316112

The fact that underscores cannot be used is a tricky issue and bound to
arise again. Just don't get fooled into thinking that its in your code as we
did. 

/Cody




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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cody
Caughlan
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:59 PM
To: FarCry Developers
Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Internet Explorer Problems Trying to Access Admin

Jeff-

Apps.cfm is:

### apps.cfm ###
<cfscript>
stApps = structNew();
stApps['farcry_test.domainname.com'] = 'FarCry_Test'; </cfscript> ### EOF
### 

Where "domainname.com" is the correct domain name.

Gary's comment about Firefox might have been misleading. Firefox can
SUCCESSFULLY login to the Admin interface. For obvious reasons this isnt
completely acceptable, namely soEditor doesn't work and also the output of
COAPI schema doesn't work. While getting around these issues and using
Firefox is more or less acceptable, it seems absolutely crazy that IE
doesn't work and Firefox (usually it's the opposite).

Cookies have been cleared/cleaned multiple times. 

Thanks
/cody



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Coughlin
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:40 PM
To: FarCry Developers
Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Internet Explorer Problems Trying to Access Admin

Cody Caughlan wrote:
> Gary and I are working on this project together, so I will address 
> your request.

Cody, can you also post your apps.cfm file?

btw:  I had a similar problem once.  It turned out I had corrupt cookies for
that domain.  I cleared my cookies and it worked.  This is likely not your
problem though since Gary pointed out that this happens in Firefox as well
(corrupt cookies are rare, thus the chance for multiople browsers to get the
same problem is unlikely).  Still, its something to try if you want.

-Jeff C.

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