Some cookies are being set, some aren't

[Thaddeus J. Quintin]

I've got a problem with cookies failing.

Here's the setup-
A staging server, RedHat Linux, with php 4.3
Main server, FreeBSD, also php 4.3

Running identical Apache setups and Identical php setups.

The staging server is only accessible behind our local firewall and does
not run https. The Main server runs https and users are transferred to
https while logging in.

For almost all users, the authentication works just fine. Two variables
are set as cookie values and checked out, so it works great. However
we've had report of some users not being able to log in. I haven't
tracked down the problem, but the behaviour they're describing describes
the cookies not being set.

I was able to reproduce this behavior on a version of the Konqueror web
browser. It could log into our staging server, but not our main server.
I thought, "maybe it's a problem with the secure login," so I made a
non-secure login. Still didn't work. I created a separate cookie
value, only for checking if cookies were being set properly. It was set
and transferred without any problems, but the other two values were non
existant when I checked out the cookie management list.

The user i heard from was running IE6, which works in every situation I
could check, He opened up all of his security settings to allow
everything, and it still didn't work.

What kind of things should I be checking out? I'm at a loss for what
else to try at this point.

Thanks-
Thaddeus Quintin

[Gary Petersen]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:47:42 -0500, in message <3F4E6A6E.2000901@dm1.com>,
the AI program named "Thaddeus J. Quintin" <thaddeus@dm1.com> randomly printed:

> I've got a problem with cookies failing.
> [...]
> I was able to reproduce this behavior on a version of the Konqueror web
> browser. [...]

I've run into a bug with Konqueror where it interprets
a cookie's expire time differently from other browsers.
It might have something to do with Konqueror mis-
interpreting the time-zone.

I never figured out exactly how the bug works, but I
remember getting around it by giving my cookies a
long time to live.