Re: Re: [PHP3] deleting cookies.

on 14/6/00 11:53 pm, Zak Greant at zak@nucleus.com wrote: > Hello Nicholas, > > You are deleting the cookies properly. The problem is that setting a > Location header interferes with setting or deleting cookies. Try using an > alternate to location like the Redirect header. Further to Zak's message, thought you might find this reference useful, as might a few other people having similar troubles with cookies and redirects. Firstly I assume you are all running IIS; this bug is thanks to Bill and his cronies, not PHP. Had me fooled for hours, as I couldn't figure out code that worked on Linux failed under IIS. (Don't ask why I had to move it; long story...) The reference was found on php.net, in the annotated manual, under cookies (I think). I quote: > "There are several references to a bug when header("Location:") is used in > conjunction with setcookie. Several comments talk about this happening in IE4. > > It's not an IE4 bug, it's an IIS bug. The bug also appears to exist in IIS 5 > (Windows 2000). The bug is documented in KB article Q176113. > > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/1/13.asp I tried what the tech note said and still couldn't get it to work, so ended up using the META tag redirect method. ie. setcookie("foo", $time, $expire); echo ("<META http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"0;URL=bar.htm\">"); instead of: setcookie("foo", $time, $expire); header ("Location: bar.htm"); It would be nice to think that if MS know enough about it to write a tech note, they could try to get around to fixing it. Gotta love how it says its a bug in 3 versions of IIS. HTH Regards Andy Warwick >>> Nicholas Burke wrote: >>> >>> This isn't very complex but its pissing me off. >>> >>> setcookie("current_client"); >>> setcookie("current_order"); >>> >>> header("Location: /admin/admin.php"); >>> >>> trying to delete current_client and current order cookies and then >>> redirecting back to the main page. In the php manual it says all you need >>> to do to delete cookies is call setcookie with only the name argument. >>> Simple enough i thought... but low and behold its just can't be that easy. >>> It never erases the cookie and i'm back to square one, if anyone has any >>> ideas, or knows something i'm completely missing i'd love to hear it. >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Nicholas Burke >>> Purplemedia,