#23955 [NEW]: setcookie(): max-age needed [to comply with rfc]

From: kruemelmonster at cookiecan dot de Operating system: PHP version: 4.3.2 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: setcookie(): max-age needed [to comply with rfc] based on the discussion in #23835, I file here that the function setcookie() should include the missing paramenter 'max-age'. max-age is defined in: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt which both are referenced in the documentation of the setcookie() - func itself. max-age has become more and more important, because it removes the timezone-issue from the former way of timestamping cookie expiration dates. thanks for considering. ----- here's some detail taken from the rfc-specs: Max-Age=value OPTIONAL. The value of the Max-Age attribute is delta-seconds, the lifetime of the cookie in seconds, a decimal non-negative integer. To handle cached cookies correctly, a client SHOULD calculate the age of the cookie according to the age calculation rules in the HTTP/1.1 specification [RFC2616]. When the age is greater than delta-seconds seconds, the client SHOULD discard the cookie. A value of zero means the cookie SHOULD be discarded immediately. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23955&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23955&r=gnused