V8 Cookie Error in Firefox

[Darren B]

Hi Jane

I can say it is working in FF V1.5.7 and IE 7

Cheers
Darren

[janeread]

Could I ask you both to ask your web hosting provider to check the time on their web server? This problem can occur if the time on the web server is set to be significantly earlier than the time in the web browser. Internet Explorer (in it's usual way) ignores this error and sets the cart cookie anyway, despite the fact that it's expiry time has already passed. Firefox, however, plays it more to the letter and deletes the cookie as soon as it is created.

This is the reply from my ISP:

the clock on the server is actually spot on and it is linked to a time server.

[wjcampbe]

the clock on the server is actually spot on and it is linked to a time server.

Which is great, but does not answer the question. What is the location of the server and what time zone is used?

Good practice says all servers should use UTC (aka GMT) - reality say this setting is often overlooked.

[mike_howles]

Just so thatyou know Jane, the site workls for me now too.

Mike

[janeread]

great and thanks for all the help from everyone on this.

Do you think I can now go back to having a privacy policy because that was thought to be a possible cause of the problem?

[cdicken]

I wouldn't bother. We only introduced the P3P policy because everyone thought Microsoft were going to make it a standard for internet explorer to look for this privacy file. As it turned out, they never did.