Reply to: Question for the Experts: Cookies Sessions problem in IE8

[milanbenes]

thanks all,

I'll close this thread

inform the boss and take the credit

nice way to finish the week

all the best

Milan.

[milanbenes]

I hates the tabs and only ever opens up new browsers

and still the same problem

looks like we gotta switch off domain relaxation in the logon tickets

but that was implemented cos of another problem

oh well


anyway, Eek the Geek, it totally makes sense what you say, thanks,

Milan.

[mudskipper]

What happens if you use new session rather than new tab/window?

Internet Explorer 8 "New Session" - Softpedia

Or am I being my usual non-techy numpty self?

WIS.

[Pondlife]

What happens if you use new session rather than new tab/window?

Internet Explorer 8 "New Session" - Softpedia

Or am I being my usual non-techy numpty self?

[milanbenes]

thanks Eek,

'No you need to set the cookies and session variables on that nth layer of the fqdn.'


I will check how I can do this.

Ta, beers r on me.

Milan.

[eek]

eek,

yes in client co, a blue chip household name by the way

all systems are hostname.domain.domain.com as is the case in the .Net world in client co's

so what's the solution ? configure ie to focus on the nth layer of the fqdn ?

Milan.

No you need to set the cookies and session variables on that nth layer of the fqdn. You could always get your infrastructure people to create cname aliases for the uat server I would be very surprised if they haven't done that already for other departments.

[mudskipper]

Ideally you should set the domain for the cookie to the fqdn or cookies will apply to all subdomains.

But as a workaround the link I posted earlier should work.

[milanbenes]

he he

Milan.

[DimPrawn]

I know the answer, and in exchange I would like 12 ounces of Gold.

TIA.

[milanbenes]

Eek the Geek,

you know the answer or not ?

feck's sake

what do you want in return, an apple sticker to put on the front of your dell laptop ?

Milan.

[eek]

ie8 seems to make sessions and cookies available to any instance of ie8

You can't.

[milanbenes]

eek,

yes in client co, a blue chip household name by the way

all systems are hostname.domain.domain.com as is the case in the .Net world in client co's

so what's the solution ? configure ie to focus on the nth layer of the fqdn ?

Milan.

[milanbenes]

Are your different environments running on the same URL?

no, all have unique fqdn

How are sessions managed - do you have some sort of state server that's shared between environments?

no state server, all separate servers unique


ie6 used to keep sessions and cookies exclusive to an instance of ie6

ie8 seems to make sessions and cookies available to any instance of ie8

how to stope this that's the question


hopefully, Nick the Geek can sort it out and I can take the credit

Milan.

[eek]

But only if they're on the same domain. Prod shouldn't be on the same domain as dev.

We know that the infrastructure is probably that bad but I was trying to explain the reason why his crap testing solution used to work in IE6 but doesn't any more due to the fact XP allowed multiple instances of IE6 to run at the same time with different cookie stacks, IE8 doesn't.

We don't have enough information to guess what the real circumstances are but I guess the infrastructure looks like:

dev.domain.co.uk
test.domain.co.uk
Welcome*-*Sedo.co.uk (prod)

and all the cookies are attached to *.domain.co.uk due to need to pass details between servers.

[mudskipper]

But only if they're on the same domain. Prod shouldn't be on the same domain as dev.

Assuming they are, then this might help

Log Into Multiple Accounts At The Same Site With Internet Explorer 8