odd cookie issue (I think)

[darrel]

Our CMS application, when you log in, writes a cookie to your computer and
stores a variety of permission variables that pertain to you.

Whenever we update data in the CMS in our application, we grab these
variables from the cookie.

This works. Usually. Once in a while, though, it doesn't grab the variable
from the cookie. It's just empty, which gives us an error down the road. Hit
save again, and things are back to normal.

Any reason for this?

-Darrel

[Jeff Dillon]

Your job is to reproduce this behavior consistently

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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Our CMS application, when you log in, writes a cookie to your computer and
stores a variety of permission variables that pertain to you.

Whenever we update data in the CMS in our application, we grab these
variables from the cookie.

This works. Usually. Once in a while, though, it doesn't grab the variable
from the cookie. It's just empty, which gives us an error down the road.
Hit save again, and things are back to normal.

Any reason for this?

-Darrel

[vMike]

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:e5**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Our CMS application, when you log in, writes a cookie to your computer and
stores a variety of permission variables that pertain to you.

Whenever we update data in the CMS in our application, we grab these
variables from the cookie.

This works. Usually. Once in a while, though, it doesn't grab the variable
from the cookie. It's just empty, which gives us an error down the road. Hit save again, and things are back to normal.

Any reason for this?

-Darrel

Whenever I add or change a cookie, I always reset the expiration and add it
back to the response cookie. I read somewhere that you need to do that even
if the original cookie it not expired. You may want look into that
possibility.
Mike

[darrel]

> Your job is to reproduce this behavior consistently

Ha! Yes. I do wish... ;o)

-Darrel

[Ray Booysen]

darrel wrote:

Your job is to reproduce this behavior consistently

Ha! Yes. I do wish... ;o)

-Darrel

Its actually half a joke. ;) If you're wanting help, you're going to
need to trace this back to the offending issue.

Have fun! :)

Regards
Ray

[darrel]

> Whenever I add or change a cookie, I always reset the expiration and add

it
back to the response cookie. I read somewhere that you need to do that
even
if the original cookie it not expired. You may want look into that

Good idea...will check into that!

-Darrel

[darrel]

> Its actually half a joke. ;) If you're wanting help, you're going to

need to trace this back to the offending issue.

Oh, I know. I wish I could. We can't replicate it though. It's more like a 1
out of 10 times type of thing.

We're doing some shot-in-the-dark stuff, but thought I'd ask in case there
is some known issue with using cookies like this.

-Darrel