accessing cookies

[epetoke]

Hi everyone,

I've got a cookie problem that i can't seem to solve. When my php script sets a cookie on my domain like so:

setcookie ("$cookiename", "$campid", time()+$cookielen, "/", ".domain1.com", 0);

I have no trouble accessing the cookie details from domain1.com using a pixel on my promotion registration page like so:

<img src="http://www.domain1.com/track/lead.php" width="1" height="1">

But when i place that pixel on domain2.com the lead.php script cannot access the cookie details.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I know you can't access cookies set on one domain from another domain but by using an img src tag to call the leap.php script on domain1.com i am not asking domain2.com to access the cookie surely.

[veronicabend]

What is the privacy level for your browser? I don't know about other browsers, but if you're using Explorer you may try setting it to Accept all cookies, and try again to see if it then works. Maybe this is related to the privacy level and "third party cookies", since the cookie does not belong to the same domain. Just an idea to check.

[epetoke]

hi veronicbend, i checked my privacy and i am on one of the lowest settings and if it doesn't work on that then the whole project is a non starter

[veronicabend]

If the problem is due to privacy, you may solve it by using a policy.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/p3p-cookies-ie6/2

[epetoke]

hi veronicabend,

you were right it had everything to do with my privacy settings. I turned my privacy setting down to the lowest level and it worked. However most browsers are set on medium to high level of privacy so i need to do something about how i set my cookie. According to the article you pointed me to i need to have a compact policy when i set my cookie.

Thanks your a star.

[veronicabend]

you're welcome 🙂
I'm glad I could help.