The problem would seem to be that the IE6 users are not sending the session
ID through with every request, check by dumping out the seesion id. It
should stay the same for every page for the 5.5 users and differ for every
page for the 6 users (and even accross different requests of the same page).
If this is the case (it probably is from the symptoms) then it means that
the IE6 users have some persimission problems regarding cookies. In IE6 this
is all tied up with the new P3P stuff (yumie!).
I have run into the exact same problem myself with IE6,. but only after
after I "auto-updated" it from the M$ site. Only way back in the end was to
re-install the O.S. (XP in that case). Note this P3P stuff should not apply
to INTRANET sites, but after the "auto-up$#@%" it seems to treat them the
same as any site on the net. Another way around might be to deploy a P3P
policy file on your web server (enjoy! - search the net for tools).
Good Luck!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Cate [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 20 May 2002 07:23
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problem with session variable
>
> Normally I don't keep sensitive data inside of session variables but in
> this
> case it was just simple. I needed a way of trapping the user name and some
> statitistical information for the duration of the session. So I started
> placing variables in the session object like this:
>
> session.putValue("StTime",time);
>
> time being a local String that contains the starting time for the request.
> On the next page, I wanted to access the variable, so I perform:
>
> String time = (String)session.getValue("StTime");
>
> This works well in IE 5.5 but in IE6, the variable is ALWAYS null. I've
> tried several different machine with several settings including allowing
> allo cookies and setting the security to the lowest possible. I set up a
> machine next to me and in IE5.5 the page displays fine and the variable is
> set. in IE 6, no such luck.
>
> Anyone have any advice or run into this before?
>
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