Problems with restful_authentication Plugin and Internet Explorer Cookies
Friday, July 11th, 2008 by John TrupianoI just ran into a fairly obscure bug. Bit me pretty good and stole an hour from me on an otherwise quiet Friday afternoon.
How the Problem Manifested Itself: Using restful_authentication, I could log in fine using Firefox and Opera, but not Internet Explorer or Safari. I figured, it’s just an HTML POST, nothing special, so what could be going wrong? I started to tail my logfile, and the session#create action was working properly. It was redirecting to a protected page, signifying that the login was successful. However, there was a second redirect occurring immediately after, sending me back to the login page. Here’s a tail of the logfile: