Re: cookies on localhost WinXP

* Thus wrote Chris Shiflett (shiflett@php.net): > --- Steve Buehler <steve@ibapp.com> wrote: > > header('Set-Cookie: coach_access[login_id]=coach'); > > Well, that is ugly, but it is actually a valid name. The name of a cookie, > as described by > http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html, is "a > sequence of characters excluding semi-colon, comma and white space." > > Now, when a browser sends this, it will be something like this: > > Cookie: coach_access[login_id]=coach A cookie name can only be a HTTP/1.1 tolken as defined in rfc2109: Any Char excluding a ctrl char and the following: "(" | ")" | "<" | ">" | "@" | "," | ";" | ":" | "\" | <"> | "/" | "[" | "]" | "?" | "=" | "{" | "}" | SP | HT Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."