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Hello. I was hoping to find a general forum for problems and I fear that I'll be reaching a very small audience by posting in this sub forum only... FMSA 8 running on Win2003. No problems except that SOME Intel based Macs running Mac OS 10.5.x and Filemaker Pro 7 can't see databases on the FMSA server. They can ping each other and Wireshark shows SOME activity between the two on Filemaker's ports, but the list of databases never appears. Attempts to connect to databases directly by specifying the fmnet: URL also fail. The clients would prefer not to upgrade to Filemaker Pro 9 if possible. Any ideas? I know that Filemaker, Inc no longer supports FM Pro 7. Any help is appreciated.

Ok, I can confirm that this bug is indeed related to the number of cookies / amount of cookie data or possibly more generally the amount of HTTP header data. I created a page (in the same domain as the FM Server) which loads up my browser with cookies (about 30 or so) then the blank page symptom ALWAYS appears. Throw a bunch of the cookies away and service returns to normal. I've submitted a bug report, but if anyone else cares to confirm this and submit their own report, maybe that will convince FM Inc. to actually fix the problem. http://www.filemaker.com/company/problems.html

YES! I am also experiencing this from FMSA8 running on Win2003. You're the first person I've found who is also experiencing this - it's a relief to know it's not just me. It appears that it's somehow related to cookies, but I haven't established exactly what that relationship is. Our web environment makes it easy for our users to collect a fair number of cookies, and it seems that deleting some subset of the cookies the browser is holding onto clears the problem up (temporarily), but there isn't any one particular cookie that is the culprit. Our next theory was that it was the NUMBER of domain cookies that the browser was holding, but I don't think that's the case either. My next guess is that perhaps IWP freaks out if the AMOUNT OF COOKIE DATA exceeds a certain size. I plan to test this by creating a test page that gives the browser several large cookies to see if I can induce the problem. Knowing Filemaker Inc., I wouldn't be surprised if this is a known issue (which they're keeping under their hat) which is fixed in FMSA9 and the only way to get the fix is to pay them more $$$. (As was the case with the browser security issue with IWP under FM6.) PLEASE REPLY IF YOU'VE RESOLVED THIS ISSUE!!! Thanks.

Hello. I have Server 8.5 Advanced installed on a Win2003 box. Everything works fine except that once in a while web forms served via IWP will come up as blank pages. I haven't been able to pin down certain facts (so far the only browser I KNOW has the problem is Firefox, both on Linux and Windows XP), and clearing the cache appears to resolve the issue... (but I haven't really established causation there either) Anyone heard of this? It's annoying because I can't reproduct the problem on demand, so I doubt FileMaker, Inc. will help me much if I call them and spend money on an incident. I couldn't find anything on their knowledge base.