I am developing on two seperate laptops and I am posting my code to a hostin
g
provider. My code works perfectly on laptop1 and on the hosting provider.
The same code does not work on laptop2.

On this laptop2 I am unable to create cookies, sessions or a ticket. I know
cookies work on laptop2 because I can recieve cookies from my hosting
provider. I believe that these have been blocked in my windows environment.

Does anyone know what programs are called when a session, cookie is being
created? Does IIS require any particular settings? How do I go about solving
this problem?

Thank you for your time.

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Wild guess, and only because this has come up in certain environments we
have deployed:

- Check if laptop2 is running some type of privacy software - even a toolbar
add-in (AOL, Yahoo, etc.) that has a packaged privacy "feature" will give
you fits. If your observations are accurate about it being able to accept
cookies from your hosting provider, and then not others, it sounds like this
is the case (aka whitelisting).

Don't think it has anything to do with IIS and/or session cookies since your
other laptop (1) isn't reporting any errors when cookies from this same
server are set.

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Cheers,
Ed


"Padraic" <Padraic.Hickey@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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>I am developing on two seperate laptops and I am posting my code to a
>hosting
> provider. My code works perfectly on laptop1 and on the hosting provider.
> The same code does not work on laptop2.
>
> On this laptop2 I am unable to create cookies, sessions or a ticket. I
> know
> cookies work on laptop2 because I can recieve cookies from my hosting
> provider. I believe that these have been blocked in my windows
> environment.
>
> Does anyone know what programs are called when a session, cookie is being
> created? Does IIS require any particular settings? How do I go about
> solving
> this problem?
>
> Thank you for your time.

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:02:53 -0800, "Ed" <ed@discussion.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>
>Don't think it has anything to do with IIS and/or session cookies since you
r
>other laptop (1) isn't reporting any errors when cookies from this same
>server are set.

I'd be fairly certain you have a client problem. FYI - The default
privacy settings in XP restrict cookie creation. Check into IE
settings. Try setting them to minimal levels and see what happens.
Another FYI - While IIS sessions are handled by the server, they rely
on a cookie on the client to work.

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Ed and Bob thanks for the feedback.

I believe ed has hit the mark with the whitelisting suggestion. All my
internet explorer settings are set to minimal. I can also receive cookies on
laptop2 so they are not blocked.

I don't have any other toolbars installed. What i do have is some antivirus
software installed on my computer. MICROSoFT Antispyware Beta 1, McAfee. I
noticed before that the Microsft Antispyware had blocked my session manager
key. When installing visual studio I created a copy of my registry as I had
to edit it to allow the installation.

As I thought this might of been the problem I unblocked the session manger
key and restored the registry with the backup.
This made know difference.
Is there anyway to check if a program is being whitelisted?
Is there anyway to recover any cookie values, programs without reinstalling
Windows?


"Bob" wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:02:53 -0800, "Ed" <ed@discussion.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> 
>
> I'd be fairly certain you have a client problem. FYI - The default
> privacy settings in XP restrict cookie creation. Check into IE
> settings. Try setting them to minimal levels and see what happens.
> Another FYI - While IIS sessions are handled by the server, they rely
> on a cookie on the client to work.
>
>

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I'd look into the McAfee settings. It may have some "Internet setting" where
it blocks all cookies by default, and have no "verification" pop up or any
indication that it's doing so - which is why your sessions are never
"retained" (don't have the "client cookie" as Bob mentioned) nor cookies
set - and you never even know about it. You may have to manually add your
server and/or domain name to a list of accepted sites (aka whitelist). Or,
someone else (if it's a shared laptop) may have chosen to "restrict" certain
sites - including the one you are testing.....so it could be on that list.

Believe me, I've come accross these poorly designed privacy software - there
are certain types of cookies that can be a danger, but certainly not all....

We have MS AntiSpyware deployed in our organization and don't have any
issues with it as far as cookies are concerned. There is only one setting
that I know of in MS AntiSpyware that mentions cookies "Internet Explorer
Cookies", but I believe it's more of an "after an IE session" rather than an
"active" restriction. It's easily toggled on or off in case this is part of
the problem.

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Cheers,
Ed



"Padraic" <Padraic.Hickey@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:E9CA36EC-2DFD-4999-9DBE-2C6FC5DD3BFB@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Ed and Bob thanks for the feedback.
>
> I believe ed has hit the mark with the whitelisting suggestion. All my
> internet explorer settings are set to minimal. I can also receive cookies
> on
> laptop2 so they are not blocked.
>
> I don't have any other toolbars installed. What i do have is some
> antivirus
> software installed on my computer. MICROSoFT Antispyware Beta 1, McAfee. I
> noticed before that the Microsft Antispyware had blocked my session
> manager
> key. When installing visual studio I created a copy of my registry as I
> had
> to edit it to allow the installation.
>
> As I thought this might of been the problem I unblocked the session manger
> key and restored the registry with the backup.
> This made know difference.
> Is there anyway to check if a program is being whitelisted?
> Is there anyway to recover any cookie values, programs without
> reinstalling
> Windows?
>
>
> "Bob" wrote:
> 

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