Re: Cookie Expire Time - Client or Server?

Hi Brandon, I think it's a problem that the cookie is set in server-time while the browser delets it in browser-time. I would do the following: Make a small file (aor store it in a database) when the cookie was set on the server. If 5 min have expired, then delete the cookie from a script. Regards Martin Brandon Bell wrote: > > When setting the expire time of a cookie in PHP like: > setcookie ("TestCookie", $value, time()+300); /* expire in 5 minutes */ > the time is obviously relative to the current time on the server. > > If the client's clock isn't in sync with the server, isn't there a > problem as to when this cookie will actually expire? > > What I want is for the cookie to expire after 5 minutes from the time it > was set, but if the client's clock has a different time than the > server's my guess is that the cookie will expire either faster or slower > than the 5 minutes that I want. > > Can someone confirm my suspicions here. If I'm correct, does anyone > have a workaround? > > Thanks! > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net