Re: Session problem with Firefox but not IE

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Off-list: OK didn't notice that, sorry.
On Mon, March 11, 2013 09:47, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> 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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> Paul Lesniewski
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