Internet Explorer 7 says no to sessions and cookies
People might think that IE6 is really slowing down the advancement of web design and development, which is true. What some people don’t realise is that IE7 is just about as evil as IE6.
Today we have noticed a nasty bug that only happens in IE7. We built a website and it is being framesetted by other websites. In IE7, sessions and cookies do not work at all for this website (which has a different domain to the parent website).
After lots of research and debugging, we’ve finally identified this bug: IE7 incorrectly sets privacy settings for the website that is contained with a frameset and is not part of the main (parent) website. All sessions and cookies are therefore blocked.
Fortunately, there is a fix:
header('P3P: CP="ALL ADM DEV PSAi COM OUR OTRo STP IND ONL"');
The above line will ‘magically’ fix this IE7 bug.
I wish the IE family was bought out by other vendors, or alternatively, died peacefully.
On a side note, let’s wait and see what Google has to offer with Google Chrome.
