Re: setcookie undocumented feature

From: Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:14:00 +0000
Subject: Re: setcookie undocumented feature
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> When I was doing some security tests, I walked into some small problems, and > did some tests with the returned headers. It seemed that if I used the > setcookie function with a value of null, the expiration time argument seemed > to be ignored. Instead, the value was replaced with the text 'deleted', and > the expiration time was set to 26 hours ago. > > Is this the way the function should behave? I liked the syntax very much > this way: > > function cookie_destroy() > { > foreach($_COOKIE as $name => $value) > { > setcookie($name, null, time() - 3600, "/"); > } > } > > If this really is a built-in feature, I would very much like to see it back > in the PHP documentation. Please submit this as a documentation problem if you would like to see this in the docs. Goba

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