Re: How to tell if client has cookies turned off?

On 6 Mar 2001 07:53:46 -0800, kevin1 <kevin1@outcomemail.com> wrote: >How can I tell reliably if someone has cookies turned off? Set a cookie on your site (perhaps the homepage?) and use code like this: if (!empty($UserHasCookies)) { echo 'Whew - you do have cookies'; } The idea is to set your code to assume that cookie support is disabled unless it finds a cookie saying otherwise. That way it'll fail safely if someone either doesn't have a cookie or their browser discards the cookie halfway through. This may seem silly, but some people get *really* paranoid about cookies. Combined with the increasingly good cookie management in modern browsers and just about anything is possible - this is in fact the major shortcoming to code like the above - it's possible for someone to accept one cookie and deny another, so just being able to set a cookie once does not mean that you will be able to set another. Chris