Strange login behavior

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8/6/2009 9:30:31 PM
Eric Stoffers
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Strange login behavior

I have a simple "members only" page where I have a role set and a user account so only certain people can log in. Sounds simple. However, if you go to the members only tab in FireFox you get a login box which makes sense, but in IE I get a red message saying "Sorry, you are not allowed to view this content. If you have questions about your permissions, please contact a site administrator."

Here's the site: (click members only tab)
http://avm.test-web-site.com/default.aspx

Why am I getting two different results based on the browser (IE/Firefox)? I'm running v2.3.1.3 and don't recall this problem in the last version, but I can't say for sure. Thanks for any insight anyone may have.

8/6/2009 9:51:53 PM
Eric Stoffers
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Re: Strange login behavior

I found somethign out that if I cleared my cookies things seemed to work as expected. However, when I have various browser up, logged into different child sites (different host headers) etc the login/cookies seem a little strange. As if somehow sessions are being shared between sites, etc. I'm thinking because these site share an installation that might be part of the issue.

So, I'm not sure if this is a bug but the behaviour doesn't seem optimal - or maybe I don't understand it all just yet (very likely).

8/7/2009 7:14:25 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Strange login behavior

Hi Eric,

I'm not seeing any difference visiting that page in different browsers. 

Cookies are based on the host name so multi sites based on host names do not share cookies but sites based on folder names do share cookies so extra trickery is needed to verify the site. You should see the notes at the botton of this page http://www.mojoportal.com/multiplesitesbasedonfoldernames.aspx

Cookies are not shared across browsers so what you do in one browser should not affect other browsers (I mean different browsers like IE vs FF multiple browser instances of the same browser will use the same cookies).

Hope it helps,

Joe

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