note 12465 deleted from function.setcookie by sniper

A lot of the stuff I was reading here, cookies were not being *saved* between sessions, so if you quit the browser and re-opened it, the cookie would no longer be there. The following format is the ONLY thing I could get to work for BOTH netscape AND Internet explorer, that would save cookies. This is just a test to see if I could get it to work, the following code is not an actual page I'm using anywhere: cookie1.php ------------ <form method=GET action=cookie2.php> Username: <input type=text name=user size=20> <input type=submit name=submit> </form> ------ cookie2.php ------- header ("Set-Cookie: logged=$user; expires=Friday, 16-Jan-2037 00:00:00 GMT; path=/;"); header ("Refresh: 1; url=cookie3.php"); echo "Logging in please wait..."; ------ cookie3.php ------- $cookieinfo = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[logged]; if (isset ($logged)) { echo "Hello, $cookieinfo. You = sux0rz."; } else { echo "You are not logged in."; } ---------- Besides the ?>'s, I the code above is everything that is in those files. Most of this stuff is combined tips from all the comments posted here. This is the only combo I could get to work right for me, thogh. I hope it helps someone else, took me about 4 hours before I got it :)