Windows Media Player Deletes Cookies

[risda]

Hello, and thank you for reading.

For the past 6 months I've had this excruciating problem on my site: www.internetdj.com that has plagued my precious hours with troubleshooting. As a "solution", I've just stated that I don't support Windows Media Player, only WinAmp.

However, we all know that in a M$ world, we need to support them too.

The problem: Windows Media Player 9.0 deletes my internetdj login cookie when I click on a .mp3 link hosted on internetdj.com. This doesn't happen when I use winamp.

To reproduce:
1: Login to internetdj: http://www.internetdj.com/user.php?action=login
1a: Cookie is set when you login. Expires next year.
2: Browse to any MP3 profile: http://www.internetdj.com/risda
2a: Notice that you're logged into the site by the "Welcome username" statement in the top of the page.
3: Click on the link for "Hi-Fi Stream".
4: Refresh the page, the welcome message is gone, and your cookie has been removed!

Any clues? Has everyone experienced this weirdness?

Michael aka "risda"
internetdj.com

[risda]

When you browse to that Profile page it loops through the available online MP3s and builds the links to the hi-fi file automatically. When you click on the HiFi Link it looks up the song record in the DB given the id and builds the file location on the fly as follows:

$outurl=chop("http://www.internetdj.com/artist/$owner_id/$file");
Header("Cache-Control: public");
Header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=internetdj.m3u");
Header("Content-Type: audio/x-mpegurl");
echo $outurl."\n";

Causing your default media player to spawn and stream the file. It does stream with WMP9, but kills my user cookie so you have to login again.

Banging head.