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i was sent a link to one of my own scripts where i use sessions for login/logout, i clicked on the link and it poped up a IE window, i loged in, that worked fine, after i got to members area, it would't let me open any other page, it would simply say "your session has timed out" which is set by me if your session breaks etc...the only reason i can think of is that if you open a window VIA MSN it does't allows the script to set session cookies
Well, as sessions are browser specific, I wonder if MSN jsut simply instantiates a different browser instance each time.
Use the following for an example. Run Internet Explorer, log in to your sight that uses sessions. Go to File->New->Window. It should work fine with the existing session. Leave the first window open.
Now, start a whole new Internet Explorer by clicking on the original icon you use to open the first one, try to cut and paste your URL from the first browser and it wont work.
It's a nice thing to have in many cases where I want to test two login ids against the same server without being in two different browsers or two different computers.
Btw, windows Explorer is techincally not a browser, but it will run IE if you happen to browse to a webpage.