Re: Session data lost in Firefox
| From: | Andrew Ballard | Date: | Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:16:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Session data lost in Firefox | ||
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:12 PM, John Boy <service@greenholdings.co.uk>wrote:
> Looks like it was a corrupted Paypal cookie lurking about on my test
> machine. Clearing all Paypal cookies cured the problem.
> Hours can be spent looking for needles like this in a very complex haystack
> and it turns out to be the simplest solution that's not even related
> directly to the programming. Thanks, Andrew for the prompting!
> However if this happened on a punter's computer the same would happen - so
> is there a way of coding the removal of third party cookies to avoid this
> problem?
>
As far as I know, if you can set a cookie you can also clear it. I don't
like the approach, though. I have 3rd party cookies disabled on purpose.
Andrew