Sessions not working in IE 7

[eluser]Derek Jones[/eluser]
[quote author="clariz" date="1221122836"][quote author="austindev" date="1221121785"]I have run into this problem as well, and I have found a solution from the MSDN forums (lost the link, sry) the issue is the name of the session cookie name. By default the session cookie is called "ci_session". It would seem that IE7 does not like "_" (underscores) in the name.

I changed the following (the default):

Code:

$config['sess_cookie_name']        = 'ci_session';

to the following:

Code:

$config['sess_cookie_name']        = 'cisession';

and everything worked fine.[/quote]


Thanks austindev
I will try that one too in my experiment.
I'll just post if I got any changes..
Thanks for the info.[/quote]

Did this fix it for you as well, clariz? If so, I find that solution troubling since it would seem to not be the actual issue. I say that because some of the highest traffic sites on the internet that cater to the IE crowd (Amazon, CNN, ESPN, Microsoft's own site, etc.) use underscores in cookie names just fine, so that's obviously not the actual issue. I wouldn't discount that it's somehow corollary, but it is not causative.