200940 - Site intermittently tells me browser is not set to accept cookies.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[John Nisbet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

eBay tells me my browser isn't set to accept cookies when logging in.  It is set
to accept cookies.  Problem persists at all cookie-acceptance settings.  Problem
persists when Browser is set to accept cookies manually.

Closing and restarting Mozilla (and closing quick-launch) doesn't help.

Site works consistently with MSIE, but who wants to use MSIE?

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to log in.  I haven't found a pattern to recreate the problem, seems
random.  Problem hasn't happened with any other sites, but I don't subscribe to
any other site.


Actual Results:  
eBay gives me an error page telling me how to change my browser settings (but of
course, I've already done what they recommend to no avail).

Expected Results:  
It should have accepted the cookie, or let the site read the cookie, and log me in.

I was using Mozilla 1.1  Upgraided to Mozilla 1.3 with no change.  Had to
subsequently change my theme, but no change to problem.

Haven't tried recreating the problem with Linux/Mozilla.  I'll leave that to you.

Good luck.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

reporter: can you please try mozilla 1.4 alpha or a recent trunk build of
mozilla?  thank you!

Comment 2

[Kai Stukenbrock]

I can confirm the general behavior, but cannot reproduce it with ebay. Just had
the problem with http://www.worldbookonline.com, keeps on telling me my browser
does not accept cookies, regardless of privacy level. Have seen that behavior
for some time now (like 3 weeks or so) with other pages as well, but don't
remember which anymore. Am using Moz 1.4a on Win 2k, also experienced it today
at work with a recent build (around 20030424) on Win NT - I first noticed the
problem after the privacy settings for cookies had been introduced.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

worksforme with 2004041608 mozilla 1.7 branch build on windows XP. no cookie
problems at ebay.com