Re: Cookie expiry period
| From: | George Patterson | Date: | Tue, 07 Nov 2000 06:38:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Cookie expiry period | ||
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Claude Cormier wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I want to set a cookie that will expire only in 10 years, in other words a
> permanent cookie.
>
> when I create one with:
>
> setcookie ("Cookiename", $cookievalue, time() + 315360000)
>
> the cookie remains permanent. But it seems to be destroyed after a couple of
> days or weeks. There is no observable pattern... Anny suggestions !
>
> Claude
>
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A cookie can be destoryed/delete at the whim of the browser...
Most(All??) browsers will limit the number of cookies stored and will
then start overwirting the oldest cookies. You could be running into a
date problem which browser have you tried...
George Patterson
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george@laopdr.com
Network Administrator
Planet Online
Vientiane, Lao PDR