Cookies

[Gula]

Hi,

I'm using Internet explorer on PC and I was making web pages on my machine I had cookies set up using FMP-SetCookie and they were working just fine..

Then we moved the files to server and Cookies don't get created anymore. What can be causing that?

Thank you

[Anatoli]

What version of IE?

If 6, then you need to declare privacy policy.

In general, cookies are not reliable in IE and FM/CDML combination.

[Gula]

what do you mean by "Declare privacy policy" ?

--privacy settings in IE->Tools->Internet Options->Privacy?

if yes, then they are set to lowest level, if no, then please explain more..

thank you

[Unable]

If I'm not mistaken, FileMaker is a company which is very concerned with the health and well-being of those who develop its product. Because of this concern FileMaker restricts the developer's diet to one cookie.

And if I am mistaken, oh well ...

[Anatoli]

RE: what do you mean by "Declare privacy policy" ?

Every server, who wants to set cookies, should have this XML document.

Because I stopped using cookies, I never went through that procedure.

[iSolve]

Personally, because of the "FileMaker Diet" (ie limited number of Cookies which can be set with the [FMP-SetCookie...] command, I switched to JavaScript Cookies.

It is not perfect (sometimes needing scripting to set form variables to the Cookie's contents), but I think that the limit for the number of concurrent cookies then becomes something like 20....

Plus it allows you to set the Cookie value to [FMP-Link], which is another limitation of the [FMP-SetCookie...] command.

[omiossec]

Gula said:

what do you mean by "Declare privacy policy" ?

IE 6 implement P3P Plateform for Privacy Policy Preferences.

It let the user to say which informations he wants to leave at disposal with the operators of Web site.

Ie 6 security options can stop cookie write from sites that doesn't have a privacy policy

see http://www.w3.org/P3P/

I wrote a little article that introduce P3P (For lasso)

http://www.lasso-developpeur.net/us/lasso/article.lasso?id=30&tab=server&lang=us