Cookie

lifaren

Hi!

I have a problem here. I need to know how to read a cookie from an another server. The only thing I know about is the name of the cookie. The cookie is probably not created in PHP. How can you do this in PHP? How can you read the value of a cookie using PHP? There is a good help in creating them and then reading the cookies in PHP. But what can I do when the cookie is created outside my application.

Thanks for all help I can get.

//Magnus

Anon

hi there

ya u can write cookie in PHP.

u can create a cookie by this command.

setcookie('name','value','expiry');

in which

name-name of the cookie
value-value of the cookie
expiry-when u want the cookie to be expired

and u can get the value of a cookie by this command:

getcookie('name');

and if u want 2 read cookie from one server 2 another then send cookie as a GET variable
from one server 2 another.

lifaren

Thanks for you answere.

I know about the command "setcookie". I know how how to write a cookie in PHP. But I don't need to create a cookie at all.

My problem is when I get a cookie from another server which is not using PHP. The only thing I know about that cookie is the name of it. Is there a way for me to read out the value of that cookie? I need that value to see if the user is authorized to use mine webserver.

Anon

You will not be allowed to read a cookie that was created by a server with another domain name than the one you are using.

sepodati

int setcookie (string name [, string value [, int expire [, string path [, string domain [, int secure]]]]])

Try setting multiple paths in the domain part and see if it works...

"www.domain.com,www.second.com"

---John Holmes...

yelvington

You don't read cookies. They come to you of their own accord, along with the HTTP request that is sent by the browser. You cannot influence that process; you can only inherit the results.

How that process works can be influenced only when the cookie is set. See the Netscape technical documentation,

http://help.netscape.com/kb/corporate/19960513-111.html