Originally posted by Muni K Reddy:
Does that mean its a bug in IE?? or is it a special feature??
Hehe, good question.
Some might tell you that MSIE IS a bug.
More seriously,
MSIE uses core Windows API calls for almost all of it's functionality.
You might find that all of your settings won't take effect without a reboot of the machine (although in later versions, it's been better about these things).
Tomcat has a feature that allows you to monitor the request headers.
In the TOMCAT_INSTALL/conf/server.xml file, find and uncomment the
requestDumperValve.
Once you do this and restart Tomcat, it will start logging all of the request headers to one of the files under TOMCAT_INSTALL/logs.
With that running,
you should be able to see if MSIE is indeed sending you the sessionID cookie.