Aol, sessions, and cookies

[speljamr]

I am having a problem with cookies, and cookies set by sessions, when using a web site from AOL. Bottom line: if I use AOL the cookies will not set.

I am setting the cookies with the following line of code:

setcookie("cookiename",$val,0,"/");

Does anbody know of any issues like this with AOL users? Is it a problem with the server's configuration, the way I'm setting the cookie?

I am absolutly mistified at this time........

[planetsim]

I think you should search the forums for this I think its come up a fair bit.

Is this happening when the user is using the AOL browser? or just being with AOL with any browser? If so it could be because your setting a cookie which never expires some cookie software dont like never expiring cookies and will not allow it, AOL if I remember correctly have some Cookie checking built in to its browsers.

[rehfeld]

its prob your browsers security settings.

for example, i know IE if set to the "medium high" security setting, will not accpet cookies that are not sent along w/ a valid p3p header.

you can read more by looking at the manual for setcookie(), in the user comments.

i really dont think its related to your expires setting, because session cookies dont specify an expires, and this is supposed to be the standard way to signal a browser to only hold onto the cookie until the browser is closed.

i think we would all be well aware of this issue if it was related to the expires parameter, as sessions wouldnt work for a lot of users unless the webmaster was aware and configured php from its default settings.