"Tom" said in news:
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We have two machines that up until about 3 weeks ago
could access a business site we use. These machines run
XP and are set on automatic update, so whatever updates
have come down have been applied. Suddenly, the site
won't allow access. The webmaster says the problem
appears to be related to session cookies, but I have set
IE6 to allow all session cookies and still no joy. Other
XP machines we have work fine. Any ideas?
They might've changed the structure of their cookie text file. Delete
their cookie and retry.
If you use a firewall, check if it blocks Referer from the browser.
Some sites use this for tracking your navigation but some also use if
for security to ensure you get to one of their pages from one of their
other pages and not from an outside link. If blocking Referer is the
problem, define a rule for that domain to allow Referer. I have seen
sites that work fine but then stop working because they decided to
implement Referer, and their techs aren't told by their web designer of
the change. Of course, if you have a firewall, then clear its logs and
try a connect to see if the logs tell you anything.
While you might be permitting per-session cookies (which expire when the
last instance of IE gets closed and supposedly their file gets deleted),
it may really be an issue with a 3rd party cookie getting blocked. I
configure IE to allow 1st party cookies (those from that web site's
domain), block 3rd party cookies (which have a domain within the cookie
different than the domain that wants to create the cookie file, used for
tracking your navigation), and allow per-session cookies. But I also
have PopUp Cop which not only blocks popups but also has cookie
management. Any domain not whitelisted in PopUp Cop will have its
cookies forced to be equivalant to per-session cookies (because those
non-whitelisted permanent cookies get deleted upon exit from the last
instance of IE). Check the status bar at the bottom of IE to see if
there is an error icon regarding security. It might tell you the real
reason for refusing a cookie, like it being a 3rd party cookie that you
have configured IE to block.
