Bizarre Bug with our Rails app in IE

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Published on 2010-05-03T07:26:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 8:18 UTC
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We're experiencing a really bizarre bug in our Rails 2.3.4 app.

This bug only happens in Internet Explorer (7 and 8). Here's what happens:

  • A new customer creates an account at https://domain.com/signup/free (notice no subdomain)
  • Their account is identified by a subdomain like "example.domain.com"
  • After signing up, they get a welcome screen with a link to their account's home page
  • They follow the link, then click the "log in" button and attempt to login
  • Even though they provide valid credentials, the app redirects back to their account's root url ... they can never reach their admin area
  • The only way they can login (on IE) is by quitting and re-opening IE ... then it works fine ...

Something with their initial session is preventing them from logging in. If it matters, we are using restful_authentication and the ssl_requirement plugin ... I'm not sure if one or both of those has a problem with IE but we are stumped here.

Also, I've read IE has an issue with subdomains that contain underscores ... this isn't what's going on.

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