cookie problem - must refresh

[Anon]

Hello,

I have a cookie problem in PHP3. Here is a description:

It is a multilingual site. The user clicks on the introduction on a flag, that brings him to one of three index files - one for each language. In this index file, I use setcookie and set the language in the cookie. This index file loads some frames. In one of the frame files, I read the cookie value (via $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS) and try to present different data for each language.

The problem is that this will not work immediately for all browsers, but first I have to refresh the page where I read the cookie to see the right results. In some browsers this will work. I am referring to IE 5+ versions of browsers..

I would appreciate any hint on this problem.

Greetings,

Nadia

[Anon]

It's probably because browsers don't make the cookie available untill the whole page has been loaded.
If you set a cookie on a frameset page, the page isn't finished loading untill all the frames have been loaded,
so the cookie is not available for the frames.

Maybe you can make an intermediate page that just sets the cookie and redirects to the frameset.