Cookies (suddenly) don't work

[Anon]

I've had a program for a while that uses cookies and suddenly it doesn't work with IE5 on my Mac... I say my mac because it works on others...

However, cookies from other sites (including this one) get written to IE5 just fine. I have also narrowed down the culprit (I think) to being the expire time argument of the setcookie function.

to get to the root of this problem this is the code that I am using. Other browsers will echo back all 4 cookies, but the IE5 on my mac only stores TestCookie and TestCookie4.

<?
setcookie("TestCookie", "Test Value");
setcookie("TestCookie2", "Test Value2", time()+3600);
setcookie("TestCookie3", "Test Value3", time()+3600, "/");
setcookie("TestCookie4", "Test Value4", "","/");

echo "TestCookie1: $TestCookie <br>
TestCookie2: $TestCookie2 <br>
TestCookie3: $TestCookie3 <br>
TestCookie4: $TestCookie4 <br>";
?>

This code is sitting at http://64.225.120.33/index.php for now (probably untill I get this sorted out) as you'll probably see, it works... it is an adaptation of the code from the php function manual.

Frankly I'm stumped... It is very simple, yes I am reloading the browser to access the cookies (obviously nothing will show up the first time accessing the page) I've reinstalled IE5, nuked the preferences, etc...

???

I would be tempted to blame it on this particular computer, or browser 🙂 but the fact that other cookies (from php sites, and others) write just fine leaves me puzzled.

Chromy

[Anon]

Did you solve this problem. I have the same one.

Chromy wrote:

I've had a program for a while that uses cookies and suddenly it doesn't work with IE5 on my Mac... I say my mac because it works on others...

However, cookies from other sites (including this one) get written to IE5 just fine. I have also narrowed down the culprit (I think) to being the expire time argument of the setcookie function.

to get to the root of this problem this is the code that I am using. Other browsers will echo back all 4 cookies, but the IE5 on my mac only stores TestCookie and TestCookie4.

<?
setcookie("TestCookie", "Test Value");
setcookie("TestCookie2", "Test Value2", time()+3600);
setcookie("TestCookie3", "Test Value3", time()+3600, "/");
setcookie("TestCookie4", "Test Value4", "","/");

echo "TestCookie1: $TestCookie
TestCookie2: $TestCookie2
TestCookie3: $TestCookie3
TestCookie4: $TestCookie4 ";
?>

This code is sitting at http://64.225.120.33/index.php for now (probably untill I get this sorted out) as you'll probably se....

[Anon]

Nope... Eventually, I just left things the way that they were. One solution is to send along cookie information manually in the headder.

IE 5 for Mac was the only browser that this didn't work in.

Chromy

[Anon]

I have exactly the same problem, so if you found solutions ....

I made some test and I have a result on them. When I write the setcookie without quote for the var, it works.

EX :
setcookie("Test", 1, time() + (3600 * 12)); //this one works

setcookie("Test2", Name, time() + (3600 * 2)); // this one works

setcookie("Test3", "Name", time() + (3600 * 2)); // doesn't work

$name = "Myself";
setcookie("Test4", $name, time() + (3600 * 2)); // doesn't work too

If you have any idea ????

[Anon]

I found a solution. In fact, I found it in a php forum.

The point is to change the time limit. If you put 2 hours, some MAC understand no hours so it creates the cookie and it deletes just after. Why ??? I don't know, but if you put 3 hours, it works agains.

Bye