[daisy] Situation where login is lost after navigating away from page

[Bruno Dumon]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:00 -0500, Thomas.Connally at dds.net wrote:
> 
> I've noticed an issue, probably related to the browser: 
> 
> In Daisy 2.1, when I login with Internet Explorer 7, and then navigate
> to another page, my login information is lost, and when I reach the
> new page, I am logged in as Guest, instead of my normal login. 
> 
> This happens also when I login, then click New Document - I am denied
> permission to add the doc, because my login has reverted to Guest. 
> 
> I tried this on Firefox. There I was asked if I want to save my login
> information. After I agreed to save the info, then it worked fine.
> When I did not agree to save the login info, it reverted to the
> behavior described above. 
> 
> I also noticed this in an instance of Daisy 1.3, using IE 7.  However,
> using another machine with IE7, I got the correct behavior. 
> 
> Is this just a browser setting causing this? 
> 

One situation where this can occur is when browsing from within
"Explorer", thus when entering the URL in the location bar of Window's
file explorer, rather than using a separately started Internet Explorer.

More generally, your browser should accept cookies from Daisy.

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