Cookie doesn't work... :(

Anon

Hi, I've a splash site that displays 4 flags (UK, Norway, Spain and Germany)

The meaning is,
1) The user clicks on i.e. the Norwegian flag, then he will access /nor/index.php on the server. That works fine, the /nor/index.php page sets a cookie like this:
<?
setcookie("norsk", "flagg", time()+28800);
?> it seems to work, because in the Temp. Internet Files on my IE I can see a cookie called nor/.

2) Next time the user visit the site, the splash page will look after the cookie(s) like this:
<?php

if($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["norsk"]) {
Header("Location: http://www.silica.nu/rober2/jardin/nor/index.php");
}

if($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["engelsk"]) {
Header("Location: http://www.silica.nu/rober2/jardin/eng/index.php");
}

if($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["spansk"]) {
Header("Location: http://www.silica.nu/rober2/jardin/esp/index.php");
}

if($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["tysk"]) {
Header("Location: http://www.silica.nu/rober2/jardin/ger/index.php");
}
?>
[Here comes the normal HTML of the splash page]

When I enter the splash page, my IE 'thinks' for a couple of seconds and then it just displays the normal HTML source as shown above.

What can be wrong?

If you want to test the site go to http://www.rober2.net/jardin and choose the Norwegian flag. (the other pages are not ready yet)

Thanks in advanced....
You guys rocks....

csaba

Let me suggest trying this with netscape and actually view the cookie details (Edit, Preferences, Privacy and Security, Cookies).
On my Netscape 6.1 the cookie you speak of is not set.
I see two obvious possibilities:
You might add the following two arguments to set cookie ("/", "")
and your time might not be matching.

This latter seems to be the most common problem. Why not take the guesswork out and let the client tell you their time. Put in a hidden field whose initial value is -1 and is set upon submission using:

var today = new Date();
document.forms.myForm.formDate.value = "" + Math.floor(today.getTime()/1000);

Now you know the remote machine's date. Of course, you should engineer the click so that it still submits for non javascript enabled browsers, in which case the value will be -1. Tough luck for them.

          Csaba