Posted by Joseph L. Mueller on 04/19/05 11:36

Richard Lynch wrote:
> On Sun, April 17, 2005 1:05 pm, Proudly Pinoy said:
>
>>I've read from php.net/setcookie and codecomments.com that using localhost
>>won't work with cookies and neither are IP addresses. So how do I test
>>cookies on local system?
>
>
> Works for me.
>
> Maybe doesn't work with specific broken browsers or something, but you
> just need it to work for development, where you pick the browser, no?
>
> You'd have to do QA on a non-localhost for those browsers so badly broken
> as to not do Cookies for localhost, but that should not be too onerous.
>
What I did when I had that same problem was to add the following record
in the HOSTS file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
127.0.0.1 my.local.com localhost

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Joseph L. Mueller

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