Cookies and IIS

Hi all, my goal is to define Cookie on the page, and to check if initialization was successful on the same page . Steps: - setcookie - Reload with the header (Location:), with the PHP_SELF, and with one GET parameter. After it is done, this parameter tells me that the page was reloaded. - If my GET parameter was defined, and HTTP_COOKIE_VARS were defined too, I can make the conclusion that everything was finished OK. Otherwise Cookie was not initialized. Everything works fine under Apache. But if I am testing under IIS 4.0, nothing works, because IIS has bugs. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/1/13.asp "When a CGI application sends a Set-Cookie header with "302 Object Moved" response and Location header, Internet Information Server (IIS) ignores the cookie header". Super. Probably this is exactly was happened with using setcookie and header (Location: ). Ok, the page I can reload in a different way, by means of header(Expires: ) etc. But what do I have to do with GET parameter? How it can be transferred if header (Location:) should not be used? May be I have to change something in the steps mentioned above in general? Thx and regards, Juri