#18337 [Opn->Bgs]: General cookies have higher priority than specific

ID: 18337 Updated by: iliaa@php.net Reported By: shaggy@vip.bg -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: HTTP related Operating System: All PHP Version: 4.2 New Comment: Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Thank you for your interest in PHP. This is more of a browser issue then anything else. I did a tcpdump of what is happening with your test code. All 3 cookie headers are sent by PHP, it is then up to the browser to determine which cookie to keep and send back. For example Mozilla 1.0, Opera 6.02 and IE 6.0 have sent back the following header 'Cookie: test=value2', while Konqueror sent back Cookie: test=value3; test=value1. It seems to me, that it is the browser's job to decide which cookie to keep and which to throw away. sent the last cookie only (value 3), Konqueror 3.0 sent 'Cookie: test=value3; test=value1'. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-09 19:39:00] shaggy@vip.bg Depends on your OS: On Unices say man patch to get the idea. If you're on Windows search for Deloire/Cygnus and diffutils, unpack and patch.exe is in the bin directory. Note: This is not a support forum or something. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-09 16:25:01] dsguy04@hotmail.com how do i fix it using http://files.derickrethans.nl/cookie_patch.diff ?????? what do i do with that stuff?????? im having this prob too ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-08 19:10:27] shaggy@vip.bg You're quiete right, the problem is I don't know how one can store this information in the _COOKIE array without breaking old apps. The Netscape docs actually are superceded by an RFC, anyway it says that if there's more than one cookie the most specific should be taken into account - if the app can't deal with them all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-08 06:54:08] jait@ee.oulu.fi Correct me if I'm wrong but according to http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html it seems that there can be multiple cookie definitions with the same name. And as long as the path is different NONE of them should get overrided. And if BOTH name and path equal the most recent cookie should be the only one that's valid. So don't you think the correct behaviour is to pass ALL the cookies to the script as long as the path is different? But this is kinda difficult with the way the $_COOKIE array is currently implemented. jt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-06 14:05:27] blackdragon3001@hotmail.com I have win XP and PHP 4.2.2! I have the same problem! I have see this :http://files.derickrethans.nl/cookie_patch.diff but can I use this and how? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/18337 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18337&edit=1