IE Sessions

[eluser]GSV Sleeper Service[/eluser]
what's the deal with CI sessions in IE? they do unpredictable things, like needing to do two refreshes before the cookie gets updated.

yes, I have done a search for 'IE sessions' and tried all the methods mentioned, none of them work. are CI Sessions just not compatible with IE? (have problems with 6 & 7)

a check list of things I've tried.
- checked time on server
- removed underscores from session cookie name
- used 'refresh' as a second parameter to redirect()
- tried session->unset_userdata()
- tried session->sess_destroy()

any ideas anyone?

[eluser]Rick Jolly[/eluser]
Try the Native Sessions library from the wiki and see if it solves your problems. It's almost a drop-in replacement. Keep in mind that it doesn't use the config file though.

[eluser]Derek Allard[/eluser]
What is your

Code:

$config['cookie_prefix']    = "";
$config['cookie_domain']    = "";
$config['cookie_path']        = "/";

set to? if you add or remove "www" from your domain does it help?

[eluser]GSV Sleeper Service[/eluser]
Rick : thanks, native sessions are working perfectly.
Derek : config values are default, just like you've listed above.

Is it worth making a bug report? lots of people seem to be having similar problems with CI sessions and IE.
At first I thought it may be a problem with our proxy server at work, but I've set up simple tests on a few different servers now, and I get the same issue.

[eluser]Derek Allard[/eluser]
My preference would be that you test the cookie_domain value before filing a bug report please.