Help needed: why this cookie is not working on IE?

scheiner

Hi All,

I have a problem setting cookies . I hope some of you will be able to help me...

look at this link:
http://www.my-robot-store.com/testcookie.php

in that link there is a cookie that its session is limited to only 3 second (the code of the script can be viewed here: http://www.my-robot-store.com/testcookie.txt)

the script increase the cookie by one, for each refresh. of course, since the cookie is limited to 3 second it should be restarted if it is not used for more than 3 second. but as you can see, you can wait few minutes, refresh and the cookie is still there (the number is increase) . The thing is that the script works fine on with Mozilla But not with Internet Explorer (the cookie is not set when using IE6) .

If any of you have any idea how to change the code in order to it to work the same for IE and Mozilla, please let me know

Tnx,
Uri

tsinka

Hi,

please don't cross post.

About that problem:

Check the server time and the client time. If they differ too much (especially if the server time is behind the client time), IE will refuse to set the expiry time.

Thomas

scheiner

Originally posted by tsinka
Hi,

please don't cross post.

About that problem:

Check the server time and the client time. If they differ too much (especially if the server time is behind the client time), IE will refuse to set the expiry time.

Thomas

Hi,
I already tried it before this way:

session_set_cookie_params(time()+3);
session_start();

but the result was that the cookie never expired. there is a time difference between me and the server location. is there a way to avoid it?

Any suggestion?

Tnx,
Uri

tsinka

Hi,

you might try to adjust the client time to match the server time just to test.
But the best solution is to make sure that the server time is synchronized with a time server.

This won't help at all if the client time is incorrect. But that is the problem of the client not of the server.

I can't think of another solution because AFAIK you can't do anything about how IE handles session cookies.

Thomas