Posted by Richard Lynch on 04/20/05 06:17

On Tue, April 19, 2005 2:20 pm, Ospinto said:
> Can someone help me with this problem?
> setcookie('myCookie',"blah");
> works fine. but when i try to set it with an expiry time, it doesn't.
> setcookie('myCookie',"blah",time()+3600);
>
> I have cookies enabled on my browser of course. And the way I know the
> second statement is not working is cos I'm doing a var_dump of $_COOKIES.
> Thanks for your help.

If the user's computer clock is way out of whack, and you are setting a
cookie to expire in 1 hour, you're likely to have problems...

Though *maybe* browsers account for this by comparing your Date: header
and your clock time, and ignore the user clock.

For sure, though, *some* versions of IE will *NOT* work when you set a
Cookie time, but not a path.

That's because the Microsoft engineers mis-read the Cookie spec (on
purpose perhaps) and require *both* time and path, or neither, but not
just path.

YMMV

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