# Cannot save session in IE6

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-save-session-in-ie6/87692>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 5, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-save-session-in-ie6/87692 "2007-03-05T07:52:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-save-session-in-ie6/87692/1 "2007-03-05T07:52:58Z")

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A search only returned this thread:  
[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/71970#101107](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/71970#101107)

FF and IE7 both accept and store sessions as such:

— !ruby/object:CGI::Session  
data: &id001  
:person\_id: 1  
:person\_name: Bob  
flash: !map:ActionController::Flash::FlashHash {}

But IE6 refuses to store the session and returns this:

— !ruby/object:CGI::Session  
data: &id001  
flash: !map:ActionController::Flash::FlashHash {}

Can filenames or underscores cause this problem? Any suggestions?  
Google hasn’t helped. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 8:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-save-session-in-ie6/87692/2 "2007-03-05T08:18:45Z")

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Hi Taylor,

do you have an underscore in your domain name? I had this problem once,  
that IE6 refused to store php sessions simply because I had an  
underscore in my domain name.

Kind regards,

## Nick

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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 8:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-save-session-in-ie6/87692/3 "2007-03-05T08:33:10Z")

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Nick,

I’m just running it off an IP address right now. Thanks for the input,  
though.

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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-save-session-in-ie6/87692/4 "2007-03-08T23:40:42Z")

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This was an issue with testing IE6 from a standalone directory instead  
of installing it properly. On real installations, session are saved  
properly.