Re: Checking if cookies can be set.

Thanks Jeremy, Thats pretty much what I figured, but I was hoping I could save myself a setcookie(), guess not :) On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, jeremy brand wrote: > Hi James, > > To be tecnical, all browsers accept cookies (they are just > HTTP headers that you are sending), but here is _an_ answer. > > You can set a "test_cookie", > > for example, set_cookie('test_cookie','ok'); > > then on the next page, test to see if $test_cookie == 'ok'; > > You can also test HTTP_USER_AGENTS for browsers that you want to send > cookies to, but that doesn't insure that they haven't turned off the > ability to store, send back cookie informations. > > So, setting a test cookie and then testing for it is the best way that > I have found so far. It is (AFAIKT) the only 100% way of knowing for > sure. > > -jeremy brand > _______________________________________________________________________ > GnuPG Fingerprint: 9F5E 95E0 1CC2 E054 84EA 6099 8ACD 9DBA D2C0 5EA9 > _ http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for > more __ > -- James Atkinson ----------------------------------------------------------------- James Atkinson 100world Technical Developer 512-1529 West 6th Avenue phone: +1-604-637-8122 Vancouver, BC, V6J 1R1 fax: +1-604-742-1770 Canada email: james.atkinson@100world.com http://www.100world.com +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message may contain confidential and/or privileged | | information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to | | receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, | | discolse or take any action based on this message or any | | information herein. If you have received this message in | | error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail | | and delete this message. Thank you for you cooperation | +---------------------------------------------------------------+