I had to disable cookies for some testing in a web application. now for some reason in IE I cannot get cookies working on localhost any more. They work as expected in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, but for some unknown reason I cannot for the life of me get cookies working on localhost. I have tried literally every setting imaginable with absolutely no luck. If I change the Url to ‘localhost.” it works as expected, but when I just use “localhost”, without the “.” period, cookies are absolutely not written. What the heck did i do? I tried upgrading to IE 9 and that didn’t work. I reverted back to IE 8 and still have the same problem. I’m going absolutely mad trying to firgure out what is causing this. I tried tools, internet options, privacy, advanced, and explicit tell the browser to accept all 1st and 3rd party cookies and I’ll be damned if I’m on a localhost site, the cookies are not written. This has worked perfect in the past, so it’s no doubt some setting I changed but I cannot for the life of me figure out what the hell is going on. If anyone has any idea of how I can remedy this, please do let me know. I’ve tried every setting imaginable with absolutely no luck. I hate internet explorer but that a conversation for a different day.
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go into tools, internet options, advanced, and hit the reset button. Put everything back to factory defaults 🙂