[support] IE 7 session/cookie issues?

[Zohar Stolar]

In Drupal 4.7 there was a similar problem, when upgrading to php 5.2.

The following line in settings.php solved it:

|register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');
|||

maybe it will help you too.




Brian Tully wrote:

> Searched Drupal.org and couldn't find a definitive answer. Is Drupal  
> 5.x not compatible with IE 7? We keep getting logged out and access  
> denied errors when viewing our site with IE7. Doesn't  happen with  
> Firefox.
>
> The odd thing is that it happens frequently, and from what I can tell  
> seems to happen after viewing a node and trying to navigate elsewhere.  
> The result is the login menu and access denied.
>
> settings.php seems to be set up correctly, with a base path defined.  
> We also upgraded to 5.2 to see if that would resolve the issue (and  
> set the $cookie_domain) but still no luck.
>
> The only thing I can think of is that we're using the securepages  
> module to use https for /user/* but I'm not sure if that would affect  
> session/cookie.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
> Brian
>