Problem with shopping cart

I am hitting this problem too.

In IE (at least in 6), if you disable cookies that's fine, cookies are disabled but the session ID remains throught the session (as you'd expect).

However, in Opera and Netscape 4.7 (and probably others), for some reason as yet unknown, if you disable cookies then you get a new session ID each time you call a new page or refresh the existing one.

This is very bad. I too am developing an application that will primarily use cookies to track and maintain a user's information; however so as to not bar people with cookies disabled, I am using the session ID as a fall-back (albeit with the proviso that users with cookies disabled will be more limited in their idle time, in case the session times out, and will also be in bother if they get disconnected).

However, if the browser gets the server to generate new session IDs when you change pages with cookies off, this rather negates the entire purpose of said fall back!

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to overcome this problem, which seems to be caused by slightly erroneous browser building?

Edit: Mamin, this looks to be exactly your problem - in IE6 I can turn off cookies and your site still works; in Opera if I do this the site tells me I need cookies turned on and it doesn't work.

Edited by pedalcars

More investigation indicates that even if you block all cookies in IE6 and leave the "accept session cookies anyway" box unchecked, IE *still* accepts session cookies! Anyone with the web wiz news app will be able to confirm this as the login requires session cookies, and it works for me even though I did the above before trying to access the news admin.

So, it appears that Opera and Mozilla/Netscape are annoying and do things wrong, while IE lies to you and does things, er, wrong!