Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Funaro
>This seems to only be a problem on Windows XP. Myself nor my clients have >problems with IE8 on Vista or Windows 7. I believe our problem involves XP, Vista, and 7, though I'll need to go back through some of the debug output that some of the problem users have sent. > >Are your users on a net

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Dave Watts
> I think I know what you mean by writing these cookies myself... but can you > show me via some code? This creates non-persistent CFID and CFTOKEN cookies; omitting the EXPIRES attribute in CFCOOKIE creates "session" cookies that expire when the browser is closed. Dave Watts,

RE: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread brad
> so is it safe to put it in both the HEAD block in the markup *and* in the > header? I can't promise it will fix your problem, but I can't see how it would break anything. (unless your site didn't render correctly in IE7 to begin with) > Would this be the correct CFHEADER? > [ cfheader name=

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Mandel
Windows firewall maybe? Mark On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Rick Sanders wrote: > > This seems to only be a problem on Windows XP. Myself nor my clients have > problems with IE8 on Vista or Windows 7. > > Are your users on a network on an Active Directory domain with a domain > policy? If the

RE: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Rick Sanders
This seems to only be a problem on Windows XP. Myself nor my clients have problems with IE8 on Vista or Windows 7. Are your users on a network on an Active Directory domain with a domain policy? If the Server hasn't been updated with the new IE8 policies, then it defaults to the IE7 policies whic

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
> > I have heard that if you replicate this tag as a cfheader tag, it > works. (although I don't know why) > > > This blog attempts to explain why: > http://ilia.ws/archives/196-IE8-X-UA-Compatible-Rant.html > > Apparently it depends on your doc type. Some doc types ignore custom > meta tags,

RE: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread brad
> I have heard that if you replicate this tag as a cfheader tag, it works. > (although I don't know why) This blog attempts to explain why: http://ilia.ws/archives/196-IE8-X-UA-Compatible-Rant.html Apparently it depends on your doc type. Some doc types ignore custom meta tags, rendering them

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
> I have heard that if you replicate this tag as a cfheader tag, it > works. (although I don't know why) The tag is in the HTML head, inserted via CFHTMLHEAD. is this what you mean? (meta tags belong in the document head anyway, per HTML 4.01 standard...?) ~~

RE: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread William Seiter
I have heard that if you replicate this tag as a cfheader tag, it works. (although I don't know why) -Original Message- From: Marc Funaro Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:21 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IE8 is killing my website >Try setting this Meta tag in you docum

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
> There are very few "transparent switches" in any computing > environment, unfortunately. AGREED!! The same goes for life, LOL :) > I would recommend that you try to set CFID and > CFTOKEN as non-persistent cookies, instead of just switching to > JSESSIONID (although I'd recommend that also,

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Atkinson
Did in fact observe two or three users. In all cases, the cookie simply wasn't being set (through observation of the Temporary Internet Files folder). In each case, eventually it just started "working" -- after trying several different things -- with no consistency as to which thing worked in

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Dave Watts
> Security zone is usually the defaults from what i can tell.  CFID/CFTOKEN are > the tokens in use. > I thought about switching to JSESSIONID, but I've never done it, and have no >idea how it would affect > the app or all the apps on the server.  Advice on that is welcome, of > course... it's

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
>If you can convince a gracious user to let you, maybe try debugging >the cookie settings process on their machine? > >Might have to go so far as doing FF plugins and whatnot, but maybe >something simple like having it prompt to set cookies will shed light >on what's happening? > >FWIW, I've seen

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
>What security zone is your site in, in the affected browsers? > >Are the cookies the standard CF session tokens (CFID/CFTOKEN or >JSESSIONID)? Or are you doing something else? Are you setting the >cookies for the same host that the user is visiting? > >Dave Watts Security zone is usually the def

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
>Try setting this Meta tag in you document head: > > > >That may solve your issue. > >Robert B. Harrison This tag's been in place for a couple weeks; no effect. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Dave Watts
> The curse of the Microsoft browsers continues.  This time, it's not even a > design issue, it's a functional issue, and it's ruining our user experience. > > Plainly put, a certain subset of IE8 users are unable to log in to our site. > Mind you, this is a signup/login process that has worked, l

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread denstar
If you can convince a gracious user to let you, maybe try debugging the cookie settings process on their machine? Might have to go so far as doing FF plugins and whatnot, but maybe something simple like having it prompt to set cookies will shed light on what's happening? FWIW, I've seen cookie s

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
>Are your users using the in private browsing feature? My understanding >is it rejects cookies that look like tracking cookies. > >~Brad Hi Brad, It's hard to tell for all of them, but the users I saw were not using InPrivate.

RE: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Harrison
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RE: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread brad
Are your users using the in private browsing feature? My understanding is it rejects cookies that look like tracking cookies. ~Brad Original Message Subject: IE8 is killing my website From: Date: Tue, February 02, 2010 11:34 am To: cf-talk The curse of the Microsoft brows

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Qing Xia
In theory, you could use the native CF URLSessionFormat() function to conditionally pass the CFID and CFToken values if the user's browser either wouldn't or couldn't accept cookies. This idea is explained in some detail in Chapter 20 of CF8 WACK book I. I have never tested this theory myself--ne