Re: IE quirk

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With IE, it's not a quirk. It's a feature.


On Thursday 16 March 2006 3:31 pm, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> [snip]
> I created a small bannering program. It works great in Firefox. But I
> have a problem with IE.
> If I place the banner on a different domain than the bannering program,
> Ex:
>
> www.bannerserver.com
>
> www.otherserver.com   has img tag calling from www.bannerserver.com
>
>
> I use a session to keep track of the banner that is displayed, have even
> tried using cookies directly.
>
> Works great in firefox, problem with IE is first time vising
> www.otherserver.com, clicking on the img does not work, apparently, the
> session was never start/recorded when retrieving the image. However, if
> I go back to www.otherserver.com, it then works fine, I can go anywhere,
> as long as I don't close the browser, www.otherserver.com works.
>
> Why would IE not be recording the session info on the first visit?
> Firefox does it just fine.
>
> Anyone run into this?
> [/snip]
>
> From http://www.php.net/session
> [quote]
> When using session_start() to begin a session this session will remain
> open until the page has finished loading or it is explicitly terminated.
>
> You can lose the session however if the the page contains a reference to
> <img src=""> with name and id references (which may be used if the image
> is referencing a dynamic image, called by javascript)  This seems to
> casue IE6 to refresh the page session id and hence loose the session.
> [/quote]

-- 
Joe Henry
www.celebrityaccess.com
jhenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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