inconsistent page display errors

heck0045

www.wedlinks.com // We are running PHP 4 and are trying to figure out why different clients who attempt to register with us receive "The page cannot be displayed" errors when using IE. They usually receive this error after the third step in the registration process. We are working on a secure server with a VeriSign certificate. We set a cookie at the onset of the registration process--and it has the correct parameters to be passed over a secure server. What I don't understand is that I have never gotten the "page not displayed" error while many of our clients have. Could it be (1) Something to do with their privacy/encryption settings? (This could only be influential if there were some default setting in IE that was known to cause these types of problems) or (2) Could it have something to do with the Internet connection? (I use dial-up, and the only people who receive this error seem to be using high-speed connections). Please help, I can't seem to figure this out. - Tim

Anon

I believe that IE6 ships with a default setting for cookies with a higher security than usual - that may cause some of your cookies not to be set. I don't know what you're storing in the cookie, but this may lead to page cannot be displayed errors...

Diego

heck0045

All that we store in the cookie is a uniqid number generated for tracking purposes. The entire call to the cookie is:

<?php
//set cookie ID for the first time
$token=md5(uniqid(rand()));
setcookie("id",$token,time()+86400,"/wedlinks/",".webhostingservers.net",1);

.webhostingservers.net is the name of our secure server. The appended "1" in the setcookie call is to ensure it is only transmitted over a secure server.

I have used medium-high privacy setting in IE 6 and all the pages have still displayed correctly on my computer. And it looks like the default for IE 6 is medium. Any other ideas?