Re: Session problem with Firefox but not IE

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Wm Mussatto <mussatto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, March 10, 2013 09:35, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Niclas Arndt <niclas_arndt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am running 1.4.21 on an old openSUSE and I have a problem that I
>>> assume is
>>> session-related.
>>>
>>> IE 9 doesn't suffer from it - only Firefox 19 (and previous versions). I
>>> haven't tried other browsers.
>>>
>>> So long as I am only logged into Squirrelmail and not doing anything
>>> else,
>>> everything is fine.
>>>
>>> If I open another Firefox window and login to for example Hotmail (or
>>> another Squirrelmail account), I get kicked out from the original
>>> Squirrelmail account with this message:
>>>
>>> ERROR
>>> You must be logged in to access this page.
>>>
>>> If I log into my Squirrelmail account, everything works (until I login
>>> to
>>> e.g. Hotmail again...).
>>>
>>> As I said previously, IE9 (and previous versions) haven't suffered from
>>> this
>>> - only Firefox.
>>>
>>> As far as I know, there is no exotic plugin (or similar) that might
>>> disturb
>>> - quite "vanilla" Firefox.
>>>
>>> session.use_cookies reports as "YES" and session.save_path looks right.
>>
>> If it works in IE (and because no one else has this issue), it's
>> probably something in your Firefox setup, or your web server... not
>> likely anything that SquirrelMail is responsible for.  You can install
>> the Cookie Warning plugin to get more accurate error reporting if the
>> problem is your cookies are being wiped out (but might be easier and
>> more informative to watch the cookies in FF yourself manually, where
>> you can also check the expiration info, etc.)
>
> Firefox shares cookies between all open instances whereas Internet
> Explorer does not.  When you opened the second SM session in FF the new
> cookies overwrote the old cookies.  I had a client bring this to my
> attention years ago.  Hope this helps.

The OP claims that opening *any* other window (URI) causes this issue.
 If so, it's not the same issue you are thinking of.  Or perhaps the
OP didn't do very good testing.  If that's the case, the problem can
be addressed by using the Login Check plugin.

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