I went thru this special brand of misery back in March of this year. Here
is the thread:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:64982
There's a lot more in that thread than here as to potential causes of this
problem.
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--m@Robertson--
Janitor, The Robertson Team
For anyone who stumbles across this post, I thought I should add the closure as
I now understand it.
First of all, the duplicate CFID and CFTOKEN was not the problem I thought it
was. It confused matters, but it seems that most browsers can tolerate it, even
though it makes no sense to me.
I
I eventually found that browsers were losing the CFID/CFTOKEN values and as
a result could not locate the session variables
Actually, browsers are not losing cookies and do not locate session variables.
Session variables are managed by ColdFusion.
IMO the problem is that when CF receives TWO
Some more info:
- I have not issued a setclientcookies=yes so assuming that is the default it
should be there.
- the redirect is via an htaccess file which says
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
- I think the redirect
I did what you suggested and thought that the problem had gone away. I was
successful in getting any traffic to move to the www prefixed name but that
didn't solve the cookie problem. I am having trouble creating the failure but I
am still seeing duplicate cookies with the same CFID and
If your Application has setclientcookies=yes, which is the default, a
cookie/session will be created for each host used by the client to access
the site.
So domain.com,www.domain.com, 127.0.0.1, could all be the same physical web
site, but would have 3 different cookies and sessions generated.
I am having a problem that from time to time CF10 creates a new pair of cookies
at the domain level, specifically whitevalegolfcub.com
The application runs under www.whitevalegolfclub.com and the CFID and CFTOKEN
cookies are created there, along with several of my own, at logon. But this
I notice that your site is reachable both through www.whitevalegolfclub.com and
whitevalegolfclub.com.
I had the same problem with one of my sites.
It looks like two different cookies are created, one for
www.whitevalegolfclub.com and the otheone for whitevalegolfclub.com
and this this goofs
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