Asp.Net Programming :: FYI: Losing session variables, authentication, cookies


	FYI: Losing session variables, authentication, cookies Just thought I'd throw up a solution to something you might come across. The answer isn't readily available, as it took me a good day and a half to find the solution. I was using an IP address to access our test site and everything was fine, as well as testing on localhost. Tried using the site using the domain name, and weird things would happen: Forms authentication would fail, session variables would never get set. Turns out it was because of an underscore character in the domain, which was intranet_test.mycompany.com Changed it to a hyphen and like magic, everything started working fine! On Jun 5, 4:24 pm, Larry Bud <larrybud2@yahoo.com> wrote: > Just thought I'd throw up a solution to something you might come > across. The answer isn't readily available, as it took me a good day > and a half to find the solution. > I was using an IP address to access our test site and everything was > fine, as well as testing on localhost. Tried using the site using the > domain name, and weird things would happen: > Forms authentication would fail, session variables would never get > set. > Turns out it was because of an underscore character in the domain, > which was intranet_test.mycompany.com > Changed it to a hyphen and like magic, everything started working fine! When you use a cookie-based session, the server send a cookie to the browser. The browser does not accept cookies if a host name contains the underscore character http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q275033