issue with cookies - W2K Server

[Bruce Cornett]

This has also been posted to the Discussion Group.

Two folks have responded to the post on the Discussion Group - both 
suggesting cookies were at fault. I agree. But I cannot seem to get a 
handle on where the problem is.

I can be a bit more specific about the behavior.

First let me say that I have reinstalled Frontier after removing the 
existing data directories and I have repeatedly deleted this manila site 
and recreated it.
Second, for those of you who might be able to determine what is going on by 
looking. The machine is http://krypton.servlet.net/manywaystopeace/ and for 
the purposes of working out this problem, the user is "test at servlet.com" 
and the pass is "test"

This behavior is very predictable. Log in go to prefs - make any sort of 
change - then log out. You will immediately get the aforementioned error 
message. However, if you then click the Back button and then click Sign Out 
again, you will be properly signed out. Most maddening.

The behavior is the same in Netscape 7 and IE 6.

It happens if I access the site from our internal network - no real 
firewall - just NAT via IPChains. And it is the same if I access the site 
from the Frontier server itself - raw on the Internet - no firewall. And it 
is the same if I try it on other machines here.

The system asks to make a change to a cookie on the log out just prior to 
blowing up. And then when you go "Back" and then click the sign out - it 
does not ask again for a cookie.

There is a second issue associated with Cookies and "redirecting" the site 
from www.manywaystopeace.org - In this case, IE fails to allow one to 
properly log in and have editor privileges. While Netscape does so without 
any trouble at all - other than the blowout when logging out mentioned above.

I am sure I can work around this by killing the redirect. This was an 
interim measure while we tried to bring this server on-line. I don't care 
much for redirects anyway. Even so, it seems that there should be a way to 
make it work.

Advice is most welcome!

Bruce Cornett