Cookie problems on some systems!!!

mickro

Hi All,

I am getting it in the neck here for a problem which (I hope) is not my fault.

I have a login system for a number of schools. It uses cookies to store usernames & passwords. It all works fine for most schools but about 5 of them are having a problem. It seems that the cookies are just not setting.

The schools who are having a problem are all using the same hardware and software (which is different to all the successful schools) but they can receive cookies from other sites!!!

This is my cooie code:

if(isset($uname) && isset($pword)) { 
    SetCookie("username", "$uname", time() + 3600,"/",".mydomain.com",0); 
    SetCookie("password", "$pword", time() + 3600,"/",".mydomain.com",0); 
}
header("location:/secure/welcomeframe.php3?scid=$scid&checklogin=Y");

Could this be a hardware/software problem, if so what?
Or is there something I could change in my cookie code to make it more consistent?

Any help would be much appreciated

Mike

mickro

Before you ask, yes I have checked to make sure they have cookies turned on 🙂

Anon

it could be possible that they are using a different form of your domain...

like if it is on a network server, and they type in

http://server/

and the cookie is set to server.mydomain.com that that would be a problem.

also if you are using mydomain.com and they are using www.mydomain.com, that also may be a problem if they are switching between the sites.

there have recently been a ton of bugs in IE's cookie handling, so if worse come to worse, just apply one of the hacks to get your own cookie data back!