Internet Explorer 9 will not accept cookies from Intranet sites?

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I had his happen to me. My issue ended up that I was using an invalid character in my local fqdn.

In my case it was underscore.

www.website_dev.com

That name didn't allow cookies to work. When I changed the underscore to a hyphen everything was good.

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Glen Little

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Glen Little over 1 year
My IE9 (Win 7, 64bit) refuses to accept cookies from Intranet sites.

If I use the "full" name of the server, it will accept cookies.

For instance, if the server is called "server1" and has a full DNS name of "server1.internal.com", then IE9 ignores cookies from http://server1 but accepts them from http://server1.internal.com.

I've changed all the settings I can find to allow cookies, but it still fails.

When looking at any site on http://server1, the "Safety" / "Webpage privacy policy" dialog lists the current page on http://server1 and says that cookies are Blocked. Clicking on "Summary" opens a dialog where I can change it to say "Always allow this site to use cookies", but even though that is set, the browser STILL ignores the cookies!

Any ideas?

Updates, to respond to 3 comments
- I can add the server name to "Trusted Sites" but it doesn't solve the problem.
- In Security, Local Intranet, settings are at default
- In Security, Local Intranet, Sites...
  - Automatically detect intranet network is checked.
  - I've added this server name to the list of web sites in the Advanced dialog
So far, nothing has worked. I am able to live with the issue because I can use the fully qualified name of the computer, and all is fine. And Chrome and Firefox have no problems...
- Steve almost 13 years
  
  Can you add the short name to your Trusted Sites list?
- Steve almost 13 years
  
  What happens if you set the security level back to default settings for Local Intranet?
- Steve almost 13 years
  
  Also, review the sites listed in Local Intranet: s3.amazonaws.com/satisfaction-production/s3_images/310774/…
- Glen Little over 11 years
  
  Quick update... this problem still persists today! But since I can use the FQDN, and avoid using IE when possible, I can live with the issue.
- Glen Little over 10 years
  
  It must be something in Windows, because it has continued after installing IE10 and then installing IE11!
winner_joiner almost 11 years

+1 Greate Catch had the same problem, and the IIS error Message, was pretty cryptic. THX
Glen Little over 10 years

I'm glad that this helped you... however, it doesn't reflect my problem.
Glen Little almost 10 years

Thanks, that sounded promising. I tried adding the URL to the list of websites in the Advanced dialog, but it has not made a difference.
AnthonyVO over 6 years

2017 and I just wasted a bunch of time on this. And people wonder why web developers insist on being able to detect IE and treat it specially.