How can I run multiple versions of IE with different sections
I am developing a web application targeting IE and during testing I would like to log in as several different users and test their interaction with each other.
Currently, I have to log in and out to switch users; Opening another window will just cancel the cookie / session.
Is there a way to make IE work completely separately; I can start firefox or chrome and get another session, but the app is not supported in those browsers.
Cheers, Chris
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One potential solution is to use many different virtual machines with different settings from your PC. Virtual PC 2007 is a free download from Microsoft that makes creating virtual machines very simple and straightforward.
Assuming you have resources from a moderately powered PC, this shouldn't be an issue either.
There's also MultipleIEs, although I don't think it uses different sessions ... worth a try.
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This may not be the final solution to your problem, but I've noticed that, for example, RSS Bandit - an RSS reader that uses IE as its rendering engine, seems to have a different Cookie base than "real Internet Explorer". This way you can have two browser (IE) sessions at the same time.
Not sure what - and when - applies to other applications.
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You can use a virtualization tool like vmware and launch a second (or more if you have enough RAM) windows instance with your IE.
And this tool sounds like it can achieve the same for IE (no hassle of installing the entire Windows installation): http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/google-buys-greenborder-security.html
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How about using the IE tester and testing for other IE versions as well?
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
How do I have two different domains for one machine? thus, different cookies will be used for different domains ("servlets").
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