215000 - Cookies expire even though I do not want them to

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Mark Rogowsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The page listed above is on of 10-20 that I visit where Mozilla takes it upon
itself to expire the cookies that store my userid and password. On IE, these
cookies last as long as the sites intend. Indeed, on many similar sites, Mozilla
has no problem allowing the cookies to last as long as the sites intend. On
sites where there is no privacy policy about storing identifiable information
(and perhaps others), Mozilla is being "my mother" and telling me those cookies
are just not good for me.

Well, those cookies served me just fine for five years on IE (a lousy browser,
of course), and there should be a way on Mozilla to set the preferences to not
screw up these cookies.

This is a bug and really needs to be fixed. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to one of the affected sites. See the above for www.dbsforums.com or
try www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb.
2. Wait a day.... Or completely exit Mozilla.
3. You will have to login manually again.
4. Do the same thing on IE, the cookie is still set and you are auto logged in. 
[No version of the Privacy Settings on Mozilla can prevent this problem.]

Actual Results:  
The cookie is gone and I have to manually log in again.

Expected Results:  
It should have allowed the cookie to persist. Even if I had to open up the
cookies wide to allow it to do so.

Comment 1

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

What are your settings in preferences->privacy->cookies? (Especially, check the
limit lifetime pref)
What does the cookie manager tell you about the expiration date of the cookies?
How many cookies do you have (from other sites)?

Comment 2

[Mark Rogowsky]

Originally, the preferences were set to Enable All Cookies and no Limit 
Lifetime Maximum was set.

As that has never worked -- months of use, three different machines -- I 
switched the initial preference to Enable Cookies Based on Privacy settings and 
did a Custom and put all 8 dropdowns at Accept. This does not help either.

How many cookies? I dunno I would say around 200.

I am all-but certain this bug is real... The only question is there some secret 
setting to fix it.

But honestly, I believe Mozilla just refuses to allow those cookies to live 
because of some way Mozilla treats those cookies that IE does not. The problem 
is easy to replicate.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

please generate a cookie log for the site (instructions for windows can be found
at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193951#c1, same idea on linux),
and attach it here. otherwise we've no way to know what's going on...

thanks!

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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