RE: [xwiki-users] Session not maintained on Internet Explorer

Chandra: You are not alone; we've experienced some puzzlement of this kind here. Of course, for this and other reasons, I'd recommend that you switch to Firefox. But back in the "real" world: Very likely it's your browser's cookie management. Firefox 1.5's default is promiscuous with cookies, meaning that it does not select the option to send cookies only to the originating host, so the two hosts both get the same cookie. From the cookie management perspective, then, the two hosts are the same, because a cookie with a given name will be sent to any host. Your IE defaults are (appropriately, in my opinion) more selective, and so they are seen as two different hosts (despite the obvious fact that they are really one). This has resulted in odd login situations for me and my group, where we have at least three XWikis going at any one time, and logging in to one has logged us out of another, or any of a variety of problems. When we thought about it, we realized that we were using different cookie management policies, and that each one perfectly explained our individual problem. In our case, there were really three different Wikis; in your case I assume that "machineName" is just a DNS name for the same machine. You can fiddle with the IE default permissions for the local, "trusted" domains if that's applicable; if it's not then it's a bad idea. Even if it is, the users have to comply, and at least be educated; giving them all a "default" default setting that's different from the factory settings is difficult unless you use SMS or some other desktop management system. Or you can, as the doctor said when the patient told him "Doc, it hurts when I do this.": "Then don't do that". In other words, only use the DNS name for the host; localhost is only correct when addressing the site from the same machine anyway. My recommendation: I don't have one. But you see what I think are the parameters of the problem. brain[sic]