Cookie check failure

Anon

Hello all,

I must be looking over something very obvious here because the following never works (I tried with PHP versions 4.3.0-dev, 4.2.1, 4.1.2, 4.0.6 all installed as CGI on an IIS 4.0 on an NT4 WS SP6a):

<?
$status = 0;
if (isset($cktest) && ($cktest == "tralala")) {$status = 1;}
if (!isset($CCHK)) {
setcookie('cktest','tralala',(time()+2592000),'/','',0);
/ Comment/Uncomment following line to reproduce bug /
//exit;
header("Location: ".$PHP_SELF."?CCHK=1");
exit;
}
?>

<head>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 01 Jan 1996 23:59:59 GMT">
<title>Cookie Check</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
Cookie Check Status:
<?
printf ('<font color="#%s">%s</font>',
$status ? "00FF00" : "FF0000",
$status ? "PASSED!" : "FAILED!");
?>
</body>

This always returns me FAILED unless I uncomment the "exit;" right after the "setcookie" instruction.

FYI, I have the following settings in my php.ini:
- register_globals = On
- output_buffering = Off

Could anyone tell me what's wrong here ?

Thx,
Steven

slug58

what do you need the " exit; " for?

vanpoeck

If you're talking about the "next;" which I comment or uncomment, I need it just to be able to set the cookie.
The second one is to make sure no code is being executed after the redirection (which should never be the case but you never know).

The thing is: it seems that if I have multiple headers, only the last one will be executed. And I think it is something I'm doing wrong because I reproduce the error using any version of PHP4 (from 4.0.6 to 4.2.1)

Any ideas ?