I-Mode Cookie trouble

[bubblenut]

Hi, I'm building an I-Mode version of our German website and I am having some trouble with the cookies. Here is a quote from one of the docs.

The PHP setcookie function it is not compatible with the Cookie specification (RFC2109) and some Web browsers. It is also not compatible with the i-mode platform. Most PHP versions (including 4.x) generate a
Set-Cookie header with a 2 digit year in the expiration date. The i-mode platform supports only a 4 digit year
or the newer "max-age" instead of "expires".

Here is a solution function which they provide.

<?php
function imode_setcookie($name,$value,$maxage,$path="",$domain="",$secure="")
{
$s = "$name=";
if ($value) $s .= urlencode($value);
$maxage = $maxage - time();
if ($maxage < 0) $maxage = 0;
$s .= "; max-age=$maxage";
if ($path) $s .= "; path=$path";
if ($domain) $s .= "; domain=$domain";
if ($secure) $s .= "; secure=$secure";
header("Set-Cookie: $s");
}
?>

Now I know this function works because I can test it in a normal browser using the following code.

<?php
include('./header/imode_funcs.php');
if($_GET['blob']==1) {
echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['test'];
} else {
$test="THIS IS A TEST";
imode_session_register('test');
header('Location: [url]http://testdev6-imode.cd-wow.com[/url]'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?blob=1');
}
?>

However when I run this through my I-Mode emulator it does not work. I'm assuming the cookie is being set because the function was provided by the i-mode provider. All I can think is that I can not retrieve it through $_COOKIE or $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS. I was just wondering if there was a way of pulling out cookies manually rather than relying on PHP to do it?

Thanks in advance
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[bubblenut]

Don't worry, found out how to check the outgoing http headers on the emulator and it isn't even sending them.

[Weedpacket]

It might be worth observing that RFC2109 has been made obsolete by RFC2965 (which PHP does follow).

[bubblenut]

Still come accross the problem that PHP set's the expiration date in a 2 digit format which I-mode does not accept. Regardless I discovered the problem was that in a normal i-mode situation the cookie header does not get to the handset, it's picked up by the i-mode proxy and stored on their server against the phones XID. So, seing as the emulator just runs through your connection to the internet it can't support cookies (you'd have thought they'd have made some way around it, it's pretty much useless without cookies when you consider there's an absolute limit of 200 chars on the url and a recomended limit of only 100!)
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