Re: Problem With Cookies

This is with regard to my earlier mail today morning. In fact I found out that, that problem is due to the way the timestamp is handled. Are there any safe ways to handle cookie expiry time regardless of the time system the client uses? Prathap ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Prathaban Mookiah" <prathap@ee.pdn.ac.lk> To: PHP Mailing Lists <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:01:29 +0600 Subject: [PHP] Problem With Cookies > I have run into a wierd problem with cookies. I am trying to set a > cookie as usual: > > $COOKIE_EXPIRES = 3600; > $COOKIE_VALID_PATH = "/mydirectory/"; > $COOKIE_DOMAIN = ".myhost.com" > > setcookie("mycookie1", "somevalue", time()+$COOKIE_EXPIRES, > $COOKIE_VALID_PATH, $COOKIE_DOMAIN, 0) > > I want this cookie to be valid only for the directory /mydirectory > in the server www.myhost.com. i.e. only for > http://www.myhost.com/ mydirectory/ > > The problem is that it works fine with IE 5.5 & Opera 8.5 & Firefox > 1.5. But the cookies are not being accepted by IE 6 & Opera 9.0. > > And this is the header I captured through ethreal: > > Set-Cookie: mycookie1=somevalue; expires=Wed,19-Jul-2006 17:08:59 > GMT; path=/ mydirectory/; domain=.myhost.com\r\n > > I am sure I am not doing something totally wrong because it works > well with some versions. Are there any known issues with the later > versions of IE and Opera. > > Thanks in advance. > > Prathap > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ------- End of Original Message -------