>> HELP!  IE6 is blocking the reading of cookies I set

Hi Guys,

I've spent hours trying to figure out this problem and I'm about to go insane. Please help me keep my sanity.

Here's the deal...

I have a tracking script installed on my server which loads a cookie onto the client browser.  This script allows me to track clicks and actions on my site.

The way it works is that when a user clicks on one of the tracking links, the click is registered in the database and the cookie is loaded.  When the user performs an action, an <img> tag on the following page reads the cookie and register the action in the database.  

This <img> tag looks like this:
<img src="http://domain.com/dt/action.php?desc=optin" width="1" height="1" border="0">

This works fine on Firefox 3.  I haven't tried on other versions of firefox but i bet it would work fine also.  

The problem is with IE6 (and probably IE7 too).  My script won't register the action in the database.  

After hours of trying to figure out the problem, here is what I've learned:
- the cookie ALWAYS is written
- the script doesn't write the action into the database which leads me to believe that IE6 is blocking access to the cookie
- sometimes when I hit the action.php script directly (versus the embedded <img> tag) several times the action registers
- when I set IE6's privacy settings to the lowest level the actions seems to be tracked consistently

Any ideas guys?

Thanks,
John Start Free Trial