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Internet Explorer Downfall of Internet

Corey Manshack — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:55:21 +0000

Internet Explorer has so many different things wrong with it. I was surprised to find this when I was searching about two letter domain names.

some background

Hallvord R. M. Steen — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:47:46 +0000

I had no idea IE had this policy, though I know what problem they are trying to solve with it. Have a look here: Yngve Pettersen (Opera developer) explains cookie TLD problems

Opera solves the same problem by disallowing cookies for a name that has no associated DNS entry. That should make mg.to work just fine :-) but I know it causes some other sites to fail.

I could have told you that :)

Pixy Misa — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:38:56 +0000

As the owner (since 1997) of mu.nu, I’m all too familiar with this “feature”. Technically, it’s correct, but that’s not a lot of comfort for the users who can’t log in. I was hoping they would fix it with IE7, but no.

Two letter domain? No cookies for you!

Michael Geary — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:14:55 +0000

This is too strange to believe, but it is true.

I’ve noticed that it is impossible to log in as a registered user here at mg.to using Internet Explorer, even though other browsers work fine.

Now I know why:

Internet Explorer does not set a cookie for two-letter domains (Microsoft Knowledge Base)

IE and 2-letter domain-names (crisp’s blog)

Update to Internet Explorer’s Cookie Jar (IEBlog)