# Sessions wont work with IE7 with 2.0.2?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-wont-work-with-ie7-with-2-0-2/138809>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 28, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-wont-work-with-ie7-with-2-0-2/138809 "2008-05-28T00:08:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sessions-wont-work-with-ie7-with-2-0-2/138809/1 "2008-05-28T00:08:43Z")

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I have an odd problem I don’t ever remember having before.

If I access my app with Safari or Firefox, I can login and maintain a  
consistent session. Tailing the log file, I see the same session ID  
evertime I hit my apps pages.

Now, I open up IE7 on my PC. I try to login, and the server thinks the  
login worked fine, but after I get redirected I am not logged in. After  
further investigation, every single hit from my IE7 generates a new  
session with a new session id.

It’s like IE7 refuses to accept a cookie from this site. The odd part  
is that I have a 1.2.3 version of the site running fine in production  
right now. The only thing I can think of that changed is upgrading to  
Rails 2.0.2. We are using ActiveRecord store for both apps, since the  
session might get a little bigger than 4K.

Any ideas? This is stumping me. Also are there any good tools for  
testing when cookies are set and cleared?