My app works fine in IE, not in FF or in CHROME

[eluser]webnology[/eluser]
Hi all,

I get to the point where i can login (using tank_auth). But when I lcik login, and get redirected to the dashboard page of the app, it only works in IE. In FF and CHROME, I get a databse error on user_id, so I suppose the user is being logged out in the other browsers.

Any idea whay this could happen?

All help welcome,
Michel

[eluser]webnology[/eluser]
Hi all,

just a reminder. Does anyone have an idea where I should be looking for this problem? Anyone had similar issues?

Regards,
Michel

[eluser]webnology[/eluser]
It sometimes does not work in IE either. But if I empty the sessions table from the db, all works fine again in IE. Unfortunatelty it still does't work in FF.

All help welcome.

Thx,
M

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
Hard to say whats going on without seeing code - the first things I would check in config/config.php:

Code:

$config['sess_cookie_name']        = 'cookiename'; // No underscore here!

// and use this snippet (just now I don't remember who posted that):
$config['cookie_domain'] = ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'localhost' ? '' : preg_replace('/^www\./', '', $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']));

I guess you use db sessions?!

No matter your browser is logged in or out you shouldn't get a DB error message when
using the tank auth library (or any other solution).

[eluser]webnology[/eluser]
Hi Lucky,

it works! It looks like it has to do with the underscore in the cokkie settings. Any idea why that would be an issue?

Regards,
Michel

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
A while ago I read that the IE has problems with underscores in the cookie name.
There are a lot of posts where a session problem was caused by that.

Nice that the problem was an easy one and your app is running now

[eluser]webnology[/eluser]
Well, to be honest, I read those posts, but as in my case, IE was working and Safari, Chrome and FF were not, I didn't try that one. Stupid, I know. Maybe the standard setup of CI should then be without the underscore.

Anyway, thx for helping,
Michel

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
You are right - it's strange that a "bugfix" for IE works for
the other browsers ...

An other possible issue could be that the "user_agent" info gets
cut sometimes. The is/was such a bug in CI 2.0.2.

Here more infos about that:
http://code.philsturgeon.co.uk/ellislab/...c9990d33bc

The userguide is not updated yet so it may be good to alter your session table
according to the mentioned problem [ "user_agent": varchar(50) => varchar(120) ].

[eluser]webnology[/eluser]
Thx, but it had already 150 as length. So it looks like the problem was not because of that.

Michel