I'm not sure if this might be related to the problem you're having, but
Internet Explorer has a long history of poor cookie implementation, from
the browser allowing anyone to read cookies from any site (versions 4.0
- 6.0) to the browser not sending the cookie information in subsequent
requests as it should (version 5.5 - maybe others).
In particular, there is an IE bug related to use of the "Location"
header that causes some versions of IE to "forget" the cookies in the
next request. Basically, when the server responds with a 304 and
includes the "Location" header, the browser is supposed to submit a GET
request for the URL specified in that header for the content. It is in
this request that IE might be failing to include the cookie information.
If this sounds remotely similar to your problem (you have some code that
looks something like header("Location: ...) in part of the transactions
that fail), try to use a relative URL in the header rather than the full
URL. This violates the standard, but it has been known to alleviate the
bug in IE, and other browsers will gracefully handle the relative URL
anyway.
Chris
Bob Irwin wrote:
>G'day,
>
>I'm using scripts that are using sessions. A user logs into a main page
>with
>a master list of database entries. They go to another page, add a new
>database entry and it appears on the master list. The user adds another
>database entry and upon going back to the master list, the new entry does
>not exist. It is like the database has not been updated. Refreshing the
>page does not help, I have to go and touch the file on the server or
>restart the browser to see the changes.
>
>What I though yesterday was the problem was occuring in both netscape and IE
>browsers. However, I have since discovered that netscape does NOT have this
>problem. Are there any session issues known to occur only with Internet
>Explorer? We are running PHP 4.2 on a unix box with apache.
>
>Any ideas?
>Best Regards
>Bob (Coffee + Laptop = KABOOM!) Irwin
>Server Admin & Web Programmer
>Planet Netcom
>
>
>
>
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