Cookies

[Anon]

Hi,

I have a site that uses cookies for authentication. A couple of days ago my browser IE5.5 stoped setting this cookie. If I set my browser to prompt when recieving a cookie it doesn't,

The site works with netscape 4.7 on the same computer, and ie5.5 on other machines, but not my own pc. I have checked all my browser settings and it all looks ok,

I have a offline version of the site that runs locally on this PC and the same code generates a cookie. Other sites are still able to set cookies aswell, ie altavista.com.

The code I use for setting this cookie is

$redirect = "cookietest.php3?cookie_check=TRUE&favourite";
$domain = ".favouriteaddresses.com";
$time = mktime() + 604800; // days
$date = date("D, d-M-y H:i:s", ($time));
$path = "/";
$cookie1 = "Set-Cookie: arse=cookie_test1; expires=$date GMT; path=$path; domain=$domain";
$cookie2 = "Set-Cookie: cunt=cookie_test2; expires=$date GMT; path=$path; domain=$domain";
header("Location: $redirect\n$cookie1\n$cookie2\n\n");

By all means please try favouriteaddresses.com/cookietest.php3 ans see if it sets a cookie on you machine.

Many thanks in advance

Justin P

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HMm well with cookie names like those, I would refuse to store them too :-)

It's probably nothing, but shouldn't you set the cookies before sending the Location header?

[Anon]

Oops apologies for the names, It was late when I wrote the example to try to ascertain what was wrong.

Didn't mean to post that to the board

Sorry

Justin P

[Anon]

Hi Vincent

Its not that, It was working, and It just stopped. It still works on other browsers so I would thick It is a problem with my browser settings. I have removed ie 5.5. and reinstalled but still the probplem exists.

I have tried what you suggested just in case.

I had a simular problem a while ago which turned out to be the content advisor. I dont think its that this time.

Thanks

Justin

[egervari]

your forgiven 🙂