IE cookies disabled but they are not

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sdooley

Hello,

I have searched the forums for an answer to this issue but have had no luck, so maybe one of you can shed some light on this for me. Anyway, when my users try to log into the share site of Alfresco they get "Cookies are Disabled please enable cookies" at the login  when they use IE 7 or 8. I use firefox and mine works flawless. I have verified that cookies are in fact on and that there is no other third party software blocking them. I am at a loss.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Shane

loftux

Made this test based on tips from stackoverflow.

Put this in file tomcat/webapps/alfresco/cookie.html the browse servername/alfresco/cookie.html

<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function createCookie(name, value, days) {
        var expires;
        if (days) {
            var date = new Date();
            date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
            expires = "; expires=" + date.toGMTString();
        }
        else expires = "";
        document.cookie = name + "=" + value + expires + "; path=/";
    }

    function readCookie(name) {
        var nameEQ = name + "=";
        var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
        for (var i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {
            var c = ca[i];
            while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') c = c.substring(1, c.length);
            if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length);
        }
        return null;
    }

    function eraseCookie(name) {
        createCookie(name, "", -1);
    }

    function areCookiesEnabled() {
        var r = false;
        createCookie("testing", "Hello", 1);
        if (readCookie("testing") != null) {
            r = true;
            eraseCookie("testing");
        }
        return r;
    }
</script>

Cookie tester. If javascript is enabled will display popup dialog telling if cookies are enabled.

<script type="text/javascript">
    alert('Cookiea enabled: '+areCookiesEnabled());
</script>
</body>
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This will tell if cookies are enabled or not.
Just another test to se if there is something wrong with Alfresco cookie detection, or your users actually have cookies turned off.