Re: Cookie Quandary

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 10:35 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote: > I wrote some cookies for a whole bunch of site admins, but failed to > set the path, so all the cookies are set to '/admin', which is not > going to work for everything they need to do. They are also too long, > set for 6 months. > > I need to correct both issues, so I changed it to write cookies to '/' > for 72 hours. I've checked my Safari, and I see that I have both > cookies set: A long one for '/admin' and a short one for '/'. I'm > worried that once the admins' short cookies run out, their browsers > will pick up the longer lasting value for the '/admin' version of the > cookie. > > I want to kill everyones' '/admin' cookies, but I'm worried that some > browsers might erase both cookies if I do this. Does anyone know if I > can safely kill the '/admin' cookie without risking deletion of the > '/' cookie? > > Cookies are client-side. Do you mean session files? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk