On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Chris Withers wrote: > Sebastian Luehnsdorf wrote: > > i'm having a strange problem with cookie based user authentication with > > ms internet explorer 5.5 on windows. it seems that the browser (but only > > this version and only under windows!) seems to "forget" its cookies, which > > results in an immediate logout. does anybody have similar experiences or a > > even solution? > > I've had this problem occasionally with other versions of IE. > I wonder whether you're setting the path on cookies correctly? > > That's all I can think of... > > Anyone else noticed this? > > cheers, > > Chris > well, i am using the following bit of code: RESPONSE.setCookie('__ac', token, path='/', expires='0') where token is a valid authentication id (i could check that). when i tried to set the domain to anything (empty string, hostname with & without port, ip address with & without port), all browsers had problems with the authentication... ciao, basti -------------------------------------------------------------------------- sebastian f. luehnsdorf beehive elektronische medien gmbh -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://basti.beehive.de http://www.beehive.de mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zope.de fon: (+49 30) 84 78 20 http://www.i-surf.de fax: (+49 30) 84 78 22 99 _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )