Internet Explorer 8 not storing cookies properly

snix123--I see lots of bugs in IE8 and while I have not seen this one, you may have uninstall IE8 if no one else comes up with a solution.

Thank you for the input.  IE8 stores cookies fine with other sites I use.  In fact is seems to store the cookies o.k. on the same site, but in a different area!   I'll keep working on it.  A customer called last week with a problem just like mine and so I was trying to recreate the problem so I could solve it.  Thought it might have something to do the cflocation in coldfusion.  

will post anything I come up with.

I will say this:  I am having difficulties expiring the same cookie.  <CFCOOKIE EXPIRES="NOW"...> doesn't seem to do it...

99.9% sure it's a cf issue

older versions of cf could not use cfcookie & cflocation on the same page...I believe that was fixed in 7 but it also may still be an issue depending on how your code is written

in place of cflocation you try using

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://yersite.com/page">

and see if that helps

jcimarron: That put me on the right track.  I went to Internet Options earlier and had deleted all temporary files and cookie, or so I thought.  When I looked this morning, I clicked Settings under Browsing History and then View Files.  Ordering by filetype, there were a ton of cookies!  I tried to delete cookies again along with temporary files, but I still saw the cookies there.  Looked down the list and found a cookie from the site I'm working on and manually deleted just that one.  Tried again, and no luck. Did the same thing again and manually deleted the cookie.  (More than one in there?)  Anyway, if finally worked and I was able to log in to my site with no problem.  My question now is why when you say 'delete cookies' and 'delete temporary files' ie8 appears NOT to do that?  I need to do more research.

I am going to try this on my pc downstairs which runs ie8, too.  

Also, I've noticed that IE8 runs slow.  When I use Firefox, my pages just zip by.  IE8 seems to spin for a good 10-20 seconds at least before the page loads.  Ah, well, what else do we live for, right? :-)

Will enter new input when I have something new to report.  Thanks for all the help.

I did try this on my downstairs PC which also runs IE8 and was able to reproduce it.  I attempted to login to my website and was denied access.  I then deleted all cookies and temporary files, etc., and that did seem to work, BUT still no joy and could not login.  My cookie program showed cookies still stored!  Finally, I ran this:
<cfcookie domain="mydomain.org" value=""  expires="NOW" name="username" >
<cfcookie domain="mydomain.org"  value=""  expires="NOW" name="password" >
<cfcookie domain="mydomain.org" value=""  expires="NOW" name="remember" >
<cfcookie domain="mydomain.org" value="" expires="NOW" name="affiliate">

This worked finally and I was able to log in.  I am not sure where to go from here.  If there is a problem with my CF code, then I need to find out what it is.  I am using cflocation to redirct after the login is correct.

snix123--Regrets.  I cannot help with the CF code problem.  I hope someone else will chime in.

did you try the meta refresh after login instead of cflocation?

SidFishes: I tried the meta login and that did not work, although I was able to eventually log in when I cleared the cookies using:
<cfcookie domain="mydomain.org" value=""  expires="NOW" name="username" >
<cfcookie domain="mydomain.org"  value=""  expires="NOW" name="password" >
<cfcookie domain="mydomain.org" value=""  expires="NOW" name="remember" >
<cfcookie domain="mydomain.org" value="" expires="NOW" name="affiliate">

Anyway, now I cannot log in to Yahoo or Washingtonpost.com with my username and password for each.  Says that cookies are not enabled for the browser.  I set the Intrnet Zone to Medium, I click Privacy tab, Advanced, All cookies excepted, override box checked, Always accept session cookies checked.  Still cannot log in.  

I went to Washingtonpost.com and clicked on Help. It directs to do this:
Internet Explorer (Windows)
1. Close your browser and reopen it (this will clear information from the browser memory)
2. On the 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options', and then click the 'General' tab (this is usually already selected).
3. In the 'Temporary Internet Files' section, click 'Settings'.
4. Click the 'View Files...' button.
5. In the list of temporary Internet files that opens up please delete all the files with "washingtonpost" in their name (many versions of Windows have a search feature in the top bar of this window to help locate files).
6. Once you have deleted those files with 'washingtonpost' in their name you can close the window then select 'OK' on the 'Settings' window and 'OK' on the 'Internet Options' window.
7. You should now be able to register or sign in (using "Already Registered")

I will have to try this.  I need to close out the browser  now.  

Thanks for all the help.

More on this: the above I tried in my last post did not work.  I then scoured the Microsoft site to try to find a solution.  I have found one for the washingtonpost.com and yahoo.com problems I described.  (Not sure if this will solve my original problem, though.)  Found on Microsoft Answers: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/thread/c55fc594-2de4-42fc-94e0-01a40869769b
It's View, Website Privacy Policy.  Then you get a list of sites for that url and whether cookies are "Accepted" or "Blocked". You double-click on the blocked ones and enable them individually.  That solved the problem with Yahoo and Washingtonpost.com.