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I have run into some issues lately w/ using IE8 to test a web site that lives at http://test_developer11/ on my company’s intranet. It doesn’t seem to handle cookies very well for some reason.
I’m using Fiddler to debug and I can see IE 8 posting to the login page, but when the site sends back the “Set-Cookie: Auth=kjksjdkfsdwoiejs…”, IE 8 refuses to set it. Not sure what’s happening? Anyone else run into this problem?
No sooner did I post this, and I by accident found a way around the issue. I had previously set up a DNS alias to the test server months earlier as http://developer11.corp.mydomain.net/.
I tried that domain and the cookies work now. Out of curiosity, I tried creating a new domain alias in my hosts file as http://testdeveloper11/ which also worked. It appears that maybe IE 8 has a “security” feature in place that blocks cookies from domains w/ underscores.
Anyway, hopefully this post will prevent others from running into the hours of frustration and debugging I’ve spent on this.