Re: [support] Cookies and SSL

Don wrote:

I've recently updated to the latest version of Drupal 6, and I'm having a terrible time with session info getting lost when switching to ssl for checkout. I have set $cookie_domain to .example.com and $base_url to http://www.example.com. when I go to checkout at http, I have a full cart. When I go to checkout at https, I have an empty cart. It just looks like the cookies looked for are different.

In both cases, the only difference in the url is 'http' and 'https', there's no domain change.

is there anything else I can check for?

No, that is the difference. The two are treated differently. See http://drupal.org/https-information for help.