accessing HTTP_COOKIE_VARS

[jwsaund]

I actually solved my own coding problem but don't understand how??

I'm writing a login script which sets a cookie. I have no problems setting the cookie and some of my pages can use HTTP_COOKIE_VARS without a problem but some of my pages had empty HTTP_COOKIE_VARS. I just figured out that the pages where I didn't have HTTP_COOKIE_VARS were pages which where accessed via the following HTML hyperlink code :

<a href ="http:/XXXXX.com/page.php> page.php </a>

instead of

<a href ="page.php> page.php </a>

which was used in the pages that did contain HTTP_COOKIE_VARS.

How does this make a difference?

[yelvington]

The Web client will send cookie information only to the domain/path combination that is specified when the cookie is set. If no domain/path is specified, the browser will assume one based on the URL currently being viewed. This is probably the source of your problem.