# Session cookie missing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/session-cookie-missing/146495>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/session-cookie-missing/146495 "2008-08-21T17:45:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aca169/32.png) [@jamie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamie)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/session-cookie-missing/146495/1 "2008-08-21T17:45:11Z")

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I am running RAILS 1.2.6 with apache balancing between a cluster of  
mongrel processes. It appears that intermittently the server is not  
receiving the session cookie from the browser for certain users.  
Wondering what situations could cause this… I know one is if the  
user has cookies turned off. Are there other situations where this  
could arise? The net effect is that users experiencing this problem  
cannot log in as a different session id is generated for each request.