Users Not Able To Log On: Likely Cookie Issue

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   Bruce:

I am the server administrator. While we do have some occasional application pool recycling issues, but they are unrelated to this issue.

The server has relatively low usage. How much does it effect performance and why? If sessions are tracked in the database, wouldn't it require only one additional hit to the database to verify the user? Using one global (page level) variable could be used for this purpose.

Wouldn't there be a way to check for cookies being enabled? My original problem is that WWF allows users to use the Log On screen (and show that they are logged on on the next page), but any subsequent page accesses aren't happening as a logged on user.

Would it be possible for the logon to use an intermediary page where it tries to access a cookie set on the logon submisssion page? If the intermediary page found a cookie then it would continue as normal, otherwise show a "Cookies must be enabled error".

Alternatively, try to set a cookie on every page. Then when the user submits their forum login details it would look for that cookie. If it didn't find it on the page where the logon credentials where posted to, then it would show the "Cookies must be enabled error".

I am looking for a solution that is more helpful to the end users. Rather than just having the user "kicked back to the login screen", displaying a message about needing to enable cookies would be more helpful to them.

Thoughts?