different cookie handling IE vs. firefox/chrome/safari

[eluser]kbroich[/eluser]
Hi guys,

I am starting with Codeigniter and I am not sure if my issue has something to do with CI or if it is a general misunderstanding of HTTP.

The thing that confuses me is that a login process leads to different results in Internet Explorer vs. Safari/Chrome/Firefox.

Please take a look at the demo (You can enter whatever u want in the form)

What am I doing?

I render a form which takes an email and a password and creates a new user:

Code:

$this->exampleuser->create($this->input->post('email'), $this->input->post('password'));

I also set a cookie to make sure that I am able to see that the user is already logged in when the page is refreshing or he/she comes back.

Code:

setcookie('loginstatus', TRUE);

After that I redirect to the start page

Code:

redirect('stream');

to see if the user is logged in or not:

Code:

if ($this->exampleuser->isloggedin() == TRUE) {
  echo "The user is already logged in";
  $this->load->view("v_stream_start");
} else {
  echo "The user still has to login";
  $this->load->view("v_stream_login");
}

In FF/Chrome/Safari it works without problems. But for some reason the Internet Explorer has trouble retreiving the cookie in the

Code:

$this->exampleuser->isloogedin()

method.

In there I do nothing more than

Code:

public function isloggedin()
{          
   return $this->input->cookie('loginstatus');
}

When I var_dump the retreived cookie in Internet Explorer it says bool(false) while in all other browsers there's a "1" in there.

Does anybody have an idea what part I am missing?

Thank u all in advance!