>The IE behavior should be considered a feature.

I believe this answer stems from a complete misunderstanding of the original poster's question.

Doesn't "session-only" mean "until the browser is quit?"

The cookie is not saved until the browser is quit, according to the OP's account. It's lost, in IE, right away, so, not a feature.

I know there are bugs in some versions of IE which require the path to be set, but I don't think that's common-- Mac version 5 only?

Short answer: show us your code, and check out the exact details of the cookie using a browser which allows you do do that.

Does your "log-in successful" page actually check that a cookie has been set? Or does it just assume that it's been set? What are the conditions you check in order to return "log-in successful"?


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In reply to Re^2: Two CGI.pm problems by Cody Pendant
in thread Two CGI.pm problems by ido50

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