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Posted by Eric on 12/20/05 08:21
Jim Hayter wrote:
> Eric wrote:
>> I'm playing around with cookies mostly as a learning experience.
>> I cant seem to get an html page to set a cookie. I'm a bit confused
>> about headers , which to send first etc.
>> Here's my strategy
>> ....
>> <body>
>> <!--#exec-cgi="/cgi-bin/setcookie.cgi" -->
>> </body>
>>
>> The cgi just writes
>> "Set-Cookie: hello=its_me" to stdout
>> My question is:
>> is this correct?
>>
>> int main(void) {
>> printf("Set-Cookie: hello=its_me\n");
>> printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> Because i dont see a cookie show up on disk on the client side.
>> And there are no errors in my apache 2.2 logs (linux based system)
>> And also, my client is IE6 on windows and its not blocking cookies.
>> I watch the cookies dir under Documents and settings and the cookie
>> never shows up, although i can see cookies arrive from other places
>> like google.
>> Can someone straighten me out here?
>> Thanks
>> Eric
>>
>
> Just a thought. If you don't provide an expiration date, you may be
> setting a session cookie. Session cookies don't get written to disk,
> they are kept in memory so they go away at the end of the session.
>
> HTH,
> Jim
Good point, i have tried adding the various data to it, expires= or
Max-Age= etc and it didnt seem to help. But as is pointed out I'm
doing it too late on the page to have it succeed so i think thats
my main problem here
Thanks
Eric
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