Is the client hitting the first page for sure in these instances? My first thought would be that the cookie is client created. So a bot or hack attempt.
Has anything changed at all with the code base, or where the cookie value is coming from? Like a possible query change. On Dec 5, 2012 10:45 PM, "Tony Green" <tonygreen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi CFTALK - > > I have a really weird mystery that Im trying to solve. I have an app > that has run fine for about 5 years. All of a sudden, about a week ago, > I'm starting to get cookies created by my own CFCOOKIE returning from > random clients all in lower case. > > For example. Template A sets: > > <cfcookie name="mycookie" value="AbCdEfG" expires="9999" domain=". > mydomain.com"> > > They then visit template B which returns: > > CFDUMP OF COOKIE SCOPE: > mycookie abcdefg > > > For some reason, while I'm setting "AbCdEfG", when I read it back I'm > getting cookie=abcdefg. This is wreaking havoc with my app since the > data in that cookie is case sensitive. > > It's not hugely common -- a few requests a day from a very heavily > trafficed website. User agents seem to be mixed, although the last 2 were > "Win NT" machines. Still, I'd like to know whether there's some weird new > browser bug out there, or whether something weird is going on with my CF > implementation. Or maybe a virus scanner out there is screwing with > cookies? Or something? > > I am running CF9, Linux Red Hat, Apache. > > Does anyone have any idea what may be going on? > > Thanks > Tony > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:353375 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
