Cookies not working for anyone except me

[Gumbo Robot]

Just a quick question - because this is driving me insane - but most of the end users of a website I've put together are public sector/ education. Is it possible that there are group policies that disable cookies? Can't think of any other reason why cookies aren't working

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Just a quick question - because this is driving me insane - but most of the end users of a website I've put together are public sector/ education. Is it possible that there are group policies that disable cookies? Can't think of any other reason why cookies aren't working

Check what how they are being sent in the header of the response. Are they against the correct domain or does it differ from the page itself

[Gumbo Robot]

Check what how they are being sent in the header of the response. Are they against the correct domain or does it differ from the page itself

Well, when I run one of my requests through fiddler it all looks good and the cookie gets created.

One thing I've noticed, though, is that it gets deleted when I close my browser window. That's not causing my problems but it's not desirable.

I'm setting cookie domain as .mydomain.org.uk and setting expiry to 1 year from now.

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Well, when I run one of my requests through fiddler it all looks good and the cookie gets created.

One thing I've noticed, though, is that it gets deleted when I close my browser window. That's not causing my problems but it's not desirable.

I'm setting cookie domain as .mydomain.org.uk and setting expiry to 1 year from now.

Are all requests going to www.mydomain.org.uk and none going to mydomain.org.uk (note the lack of anything prefix in the second as those requests won't save the cookie).

You are explicitly setting the date for expires?

[Gumbo Robot]

Are all requests going to www.mydomain.org.uk and none going to mydomain.org.uk (note the lack of anything prefix in the second as those requests won't save the cookie).

You are explicitly setting the date for expires?

Yes, I checked in fiddler & they are all going to www.mydomain.org.uk & I'm setting the expiration date of the cookie with a DateTime.Now + 1 year construct.

Like I said, the cookie gets deleted when I close the browser (IE11) but when I fired it back up again, I noticed that the cookie was there in the request so possible it gets persisted in more than 1 place. I was looking at C:\Users\Gumbo\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INe tCookies\Low (win 8.1).

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Yes, I checked in fiddler & they are all going to www.mydomain.org.uk & I'm setting the expiration date of the cookie with a DateTime.Now + 1 year construct.

Like I said, the cookie gets deleted when I close the browser (IE11) but when I fired it back up again, I noticed that the cookie was there in the request so possible it gets persisted in more than 1 place. I was looking at C:\Users\Gumbo\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INe tCookies\Low (win 8.1).

What do the log files say. Clearly your requests are going to www. But are everyone elses?

[Gumbo Robot]

What do the log files say. Clearly your requests are going to www. But are everyone elses?

I think I've found the problem.

I've got a shopping cart that hooks up with Papal. I specify a return URL in a hidden ffield on the form..

When I capture the response in Fiddler, I see that the cookie gets passed back in theback post request back to my site but it doesn't seem to work for everyone. Even when cookies have been working for other people up to this point it seems to be here where it all falls over.

Edit: the return URL that I was passing into Paypal (i.e. the one that the user is redirected to after completing their transaction) was http://mydomain.org.ukuk. I changed it to http://www.mydomain.org.ukmydomain and it all seems to work.

Thanks for your help.