cookies being purged overnight

[akosz]

hello, we have am intranet application written in ColdFusion (though i don't think that the language matters in this case). we use cookies to save certain user preferences. they are all set to "never" expire.

one of our users loses all of his cookies every morning when he logs in. this doesn't happen if he just shuts down, reboots, or exits internet explorer, it only occurs overnight.

this is the only person with this problem.

i can't find any internet explorer settings that would cause this to happen. any ideas?

akosz

[the tree]

It could be some security program that's set to delete cookies over night. Check the settings for that.

Is this just for one individual user? odd.

[TheBearMay]

Only setting that I can think of in IE is under the Advanced Tab, security section and reads:

Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder when Browser is Closed

But that should clear it every time he shuts down IE, so...

[akosz]

Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder when Browser is Closed

yep, found that, it was off :confused:

he doesn't seem to have any special security software installed either.

this is making me nuts!

[Stephen Philbin]

IE has always miss-handled cookies right? So maybe the other people are using a version of IE that had a patch to solve this problem, whilst this one user has not applied the update?

You could compare versions of IE by clicking help>>About Internet Explorer. That should tell you what version etc it is. If they differ then you may have found your problem. Only possibility I can think of.