Had some wonderfull Internet Explorer frustrations today and thought i’d share it with you.
When I copied a Drupal site from our testserver to my local machine i found out i couldn’t login to Drupal using Internet Explorer (7).
Firefox worked fine but IE refused 100% of the time. No error messages or warnings, the login block was emptied and you’d return to thesame page.
I did some research and turns out Internet Explorer makes a problem out of underscores in your domainname (whereas Firefox ignores it). Guess what i was using …
I changed my apache vhosts file and windows hosts file by removing the underscore for that particular site, rebooted apache and afterwards my login worked like a charm in IE.
Hope this helps someone .(be aware that I found more problems than this in using IE, sometimes just clearing your cookies would do the tric according to some users. Not in my case though).
PS: This has to be the 5.789.438th time i wished someone would just nuke IE of the planet…
#1 by Thomas - September 29th, 2009 at 14:40
Underscores in domain names are against RFC regulations
Shouldn’t we be happy that IE follows the rules this once?
#2 by Mr. Home Equity Loans - December 29th, 2009 at 07:46
Its may problem by cache or cookie . Should clear cache and delete cookies before test some update