Problem with cookies for some of our users

PerB

On the site I'm representing, we have have a login system using sessions. We also set a few extra cookies so that our users will be logged in when going to our vBulleting forum. System works fine for most of our users, but we have quite a bunch for whom the cookies are not set - including the session cookie, leading to these members not being logged in. Our own cookies we set with setcookie() with time=0 to last just the session - but they don't get set (we log this in the database to be able to track what's happening).

Any idea what might cause the cookies not being set for all of our visitors? We have 8 front webservers, all running Gentoo.

Setup: Apache/2.0.50 (Gentoo/Linux) PHP/5.0.1

Thanks in advance!
/Per

planetsim

I can think of about 8 reasons why they wouldnt get set. But to narrow it down, browser may have cookies disabled or the browser doesnt support cookies.

PerB

Nope - no easy solution here! We can check cookies with javascript for a few of them (at least), and it seems that it is random as well: it works sometimes!

/Per

justhost

Originally posted by PerB
Nope - no easy solution here! We can check cookies with javascript for a few of them (at least), and it seems that it is random as well: it works sometimes!

/Per

Per

Have you ever found a solution to this problem? I am experiencing very similar issues.

rehfeld

this is common
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