[ic] session id problems

[Ed LaFrance]

At 02:04 PM 04/30/2002 +0100, you wrote:

> > I would appreciate anyone's help on this matter. The problem is I
> > have taken
> > the foundation store demo and customized it to my site design.
> > Ever since I
> > did this the store does not hold a session. For example, if you put
> > something in your cart and continue shopping when you go back to the cart
> > the item(s) is gone. Also I noticed that as I click around the site the
> > session_id in the url keeps changing. This has made Interchange software
> > unusable. I've searched through the group messages but have not found
> > anything to help.
>
>Have you been messing with the CookieDomain directive in your catalog.cfg?
>That's the only way I have been able to break a store in this way.
>
>Jonathan
>Webmaint.

Another thing to verify is that all forms contain a hidden input to 
maintain the session ID, i.e.:

<input type=hidden name=mv_session_id value="[data session id]">

...this is necessary for those who might browse your store with cookies 
disabled.

- Ed L.

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