Watch The Case of Your URLs for Your Cookies' Sake
Having problems with cookies on your site? It might not be
a cookie problem at all. It might be an issue with the case
you're using in the links that you type.
While IIS and IE are not case sensitive, some browsers
(including some versions of Netscape Navigator) can get
confused when you refer to the same location using
different cases. This can cause the browser to inadvertently
not send previously set cookies within the specifid scope
along with the request for the page as they should.
For example, if you sometimes refer to a location as:
http://localhost/WWW/pages/
and other times refer to the same location as:
http://localhost/www/pages/
it's possible that cookies sent with the request for one
of the above might not be sent with a request for the other.
To eliminate this problem, when creating anchor tags and links,
you should use a uniform way of refering to each path / document
within your site. It doesn't matter if it's all caps, all lower,
or mixed case, as long as it's always the same.
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