Cookies will not update properly

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Clif Gregory

A web site I manage uses cookies to maintain state for
complex searches. Yesterday, I was unable to use the site
because MSIE 6.0.2800 would not update the cookie as I
went from page to page. At the same time, the site
operated properly under Netscape 6.2. After clearing out
my MSIE cookie cache, everything returned to normal and
worked properly. System is XP Pro with all lates updates
from Microsoft including SP1 for MSIE 6.0 installed in
June.

Anyone know more about this problem?
 
Thanks for the list but it did not help - applies only to
managing cookies via the browser, not programmatically. I
update the cookie by adding to the expiration date and
modifying some other elements, then rewriting the cookie
either in Perl via:

print "Set-cookie: $cookie", "\n";

where $cookie contains the updated info

or in VBScript via a several response.cookies
("cookiename") instructuctions, e.g.,

response.cookies("cookiename").Expires = Date + 365

Both approaches worked fine until I and my associate
upgraded to MSIE 6 and Windows XP Pro. Now we seem to
periodically be unable to update the cookie when the
cookie "cache" wraps. This creates havoc with the site
operation!
 
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