Re: Forms Authentication and Differences Between Windows Explorer and IE

From: Kevin Watkins (mrkwatkins_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: 8 Apr 2004 03:41:09 -0700

I have done further testing on this. I believe the problem is because
session cookies are stored in memory. If you launch an IE instance
then the cookies are stored in that iexplore.exe process, so are lost
when it finishes. However if you browse the internet via explorer then
the cookies are stored in the explorer.exe process, which obviously
doesn't end so the session cookies don't die and the
session/authentication carries on when you load up the site again.

I have tested this on Win 2000 with IE 5.5 and IE 6, and on Win XP
running IE 6. The problem only seems to occur with IE 6.

Kev