note 14372 deleted from function.setcookie by imajes

I found that Netscape chokes on the cookie function when accompanied by a header-location function in the form: header ("Location:authtest.php"); The error message is "The documents contained no data." and occurs in, at least, Navigator 4.7x for Mac and 6.0 for Windows. This also occurs when the location is either explicit, contained in a variable, or is represented by the special variable $PHP_SELF. Of course, when the user cancels the error and presses submit once more, Netscape takes the cookie and doesn't throw up. I bought a clue from the discussions here under "header()" and found success when I added merely a question mark at the tail of the location document, as follows: header ("Location:authtest.php?"); Now Netscape swallows the cookie on the first button press and is happy. And so am I. And I'm just a newbie... but a happy one.