Too many cookies?

”We’re setting too many cookies and so losing the session.”

Number and size limits of a cookie in Internet Explorer

At least 300 cookies
At least 4096 bytes per cookie (as measured by the size of the characters that comprise the cookie non-terminal in the syntax description of the Set-Cookie header)
At least 20 cookies per unique host or domain name


(Also, see the limits for Netscape)

Basically, our application stored various little values in a cookie and when those values exceeded 20, the user got logged off.

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