[Catalyst] IE Cookie problems

[Hermida, Leandro]

On May 29, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Matt S Trout wrote:
> Shawn Ferris wrote:
>> Thanks for the tips -- but nothing is helping unfortunately.. I've 
>> used both the IP address and the hostname, which only contains
>> alpha chars and still no go. Within fiddler I see that the
>> Response header has a Set-Cookie record but it doesn't seem to be 
>> doing anything with it.
>>
>> The authentication seems to be pretty simple in my case.. I have a
>> login method within my Controller.. This has the form which is
>> posting the un/pw back to itself.. then upon successful 
>> authentication, I see the session being created in the logs and
>> then it's redirecting to the "main" page. It's almost taken 100%
>> from the Cookbook. (There are errors in the code in the Cookbook 
>> that I've had to fix) -- and again, it's working from Firefox. I
>> think I have everything correct, IE just doesn't take it.
>>
>> I've also installed Maxthon and used the tools there to clear all 
>> history, cookies, caches, etc.. to no avail. Any other suggestions
>> out there?
>
> IE being retarded, have you tried running the test server with
> either -k
> (keepalive) or -f (fork)? I've seen inexplicable problems magically go

> away by doing that before (and never show up if you've got an HTTP
> proxy
> in front of the test server, or if you're using anything else to serve
> the app, or if the phase of the moon is different, and of course if 
> you're using anything except Intarwub Exploder) ...

Matt is right, the -k switch will fix the problem with IE and cookies.
When doing the tutorial I used Firefox and didn't notice it but then I
decided to run it using IE and the login page would show but when trying
doing the post from the login page it would crap out because it couldn't
take the cookie.  It was immediately fixed by using myapp_server.pl -k

Leandro