php setcookie() function and netscape

webnewone

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I'm trying to set a cookie in the following way:

Website visitor visits my site http://www.mysite.com/?nic=221

I want to set a cookie called "id" to the value of nic in the url (in this case 221) so long as nic is equal to or greater than 1, so my code is the following:

<?php

if ($nic >= 1)
{
setcookie( "id", "$nic", time ()+31536000, "/",
"mysite.com", 0 );
}

Now the above works fine in i.e. 4.x and above, opera, mozzila etc but it won't set the cookie in Netscape 4.x or Netscape 6.x

I've read the netscape spcification for setcookie function but I can't see what I'm doing wrong. Are there any known issues or does someone see an error in my code?

I've been staring at this for nearly three hours now!

Thanks for your help!

Gavin

laserlight

Only hosts within the specified domain can set a cookie for a domain and domains must have at least two (2) or three (3) periods in them to prevent domains of the form: ".com", ".edu", and "va.us". Any domain that fails within one of the seven special top level domains listed below only require two periods. Any other domain requires at least three. The seven special top level domains are: "COM", "EDU", "NET", "ORG", "GOV", "MIL", and "INT".

Maybe you should use:

<?php 

if ($nic >= 1) 
{ 
	setcookie("id", $nic, time() + 31536000, "/", ".mysite.com", 0); 
} 

?>

Though I think that some browsers apparently have problems when path is set, or when domain is set etc.

ereptur

I too have had problems when setting the domain argument in setcookie. I prefer to leave it blank as it will auto-assign itself to your domain.