Re: weird IE cookie problem

ahhh. a combination of incorrect timezone on my new laptop and the server time being slightly out was causing my head a lot of pain... thanks for the pointer, Jav

From: Marco Tabini <marcot@tabini.ca> To: Javier Montserat <codareef@hotmail.com> CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] weird IE cookie problem Date: 14 Oct 2002 13:44:25 -0400 Is the time set properly on your machine? Double check both the time AND the timezone. I went nuts trying to fix a similar problem once just to find out that someone had changed the timezone on the PC for a test and then forgot to put it back. On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 13:25, Javier Montserat wrote: Hi I've successfully been using the following code to set cookies in IE / NS / Mozilla. I've just bought a new laptop and in IE 5.5 and 6 the cookies are not being set by my site. Other sites (msn etc) set cookies fine. I've installed Mozilla and this accepts cookies fine. WTF is wrong with IE on this new machine...??? Has anyone encountered anything like this...??? Here's the code - $cookiename = "test"; $value = "testvalue"; $expires = time()+3600; $domain = "mydomain.com"; $path = "/"; $COOKIE = "Set-Cookie: $cookiename=$value"; if (isset($expires) && ($expires > 0)) { $COOKIE .= "; EXPIRES=". gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s",$expires) . " GMT";} if (isset($domain)) { $COOKIE .= "; DOMAIN=$domain"; } if (isset($path)) { $COOKIE .= "; PATH=$path"; } if (isset($secure) && $secure>0) { $COOKIE .= "; SECURE"; } header($COOKIE,false); // this doesn't work either ... setcookie ( $cookiename , $value, $expires, $path, $domain); _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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