Re: Can't send cookie and redirect together (php3/IIS)

on 1/6/00 9:13 pm, editor at editor@yellowjournal.org wrote: > I'm trying to set a cookie and redirect to a new page. I've tried: > > setcookie("cookieName",$value,); > header ("Location: http://www.foo.com"); > > It does the redirect, but doesn't set the cookie. If I comment out the > redirect, it sets the cookie. If I switch the order of the lines it > does the redirect before it ever gets to the cookie line. I tried > combining the cookie and the redirect into a single "header()" call, but > couldn't find a syntax that works. > > I know this should be simple, but I can't get it. Any suggestions? I too was having this problem, and found the following note on php.net: "There are several references to a bug when header("Location:") is used in conjunction with setcookie. Several comments talk about this happening in IE4. It's not an IE4 bug, it's an IIS bug. The bug also appears to exist in IIS 5 (Windows 2000). The bug is documented in KB article Q176113. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/1/13.asp I found that using <META http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL:your URL"> seems to work as an alternative." Hope that eases the frustration :) -- Andy Warwick andy.w@creed.co.uk