Hi Malcolm

Thanks for your suggestion. I did to try using a FQDN to configure IE
for cookies. I am still seeing requests coming in from IE do not carry
a cookie......

What am I doing wrong?

On Aug 12, 9:48 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 19:21 -0700, humble wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am writing a web application that involves session management with
> > the corporate backend module. I wrote my own authentication backend
> > plugin to satisfy the corporate requirement, not the default
> > authentication backend. I use file based session engine to avoid
> > sqlite crap. Everything works fine in firefox and chrome. But it seems
> > to be a problem with IE: response includes a new session ID (actually
> > a test cookie) for each request from IE. It seems IE never sends back
> > the previous cookie given by the server in subsequent request. Check
> > in /tmp/ (where I store all session files), I see the previous session
> > file is replaced with a new empty session file.
>
> > Looking in to contrib.session.middleware.py confirms
> > "request.session.session_key" is different for each request. However,
> > this only happens when I use IE.  I configured IE 7 to allow cookies,
> > so it does not reject cookies from django. What might be the problem?
> > Has any one seen this issue before?
>
> I've seen it before when the domain being used for the cookie wasn't a
> valid domain name. Browsers have blacklists of sets of domains that they
> won't accept/send cookies for and they typically won't allow you to set
> a cookie for .com, say.
>
> That might be the problem in this case.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
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