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by txitguy 1 view

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Internet Explorer is giving me a major headache with session cookies (i.e. cookies set without an expiration date). We have a web application that interacts with the user frequently for sessions lasting between 20 minutes and 1 hour, 15 minutes.Especially on the longer sessions, Internet Explorer will be chugging merrily along...and then will suddenly decide it no longer wants to send any cookies back to the server. I know what to do if IE doesn't return cookies from the very beginning, that you can test for, but to have it stop talking in the middle of a session is illogical...and most frustrating.

Does anyone here know why Internet Explorer is doing this? More importantly, can anyone tell me what I can do to force IE to behave?

Thanks,
Ben Nelson

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by rshumpe

At long last...the search for the answer to why Session Variables are not working after installing the Microsoft Security Toolkit on NT 4.0 has revealed itself to us. Please refer to the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316112&SD=MSKB&

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