I have a page where I grab a value from the query string and add it into a cookie. The value is used for a couple of different items on the page. If the user returns to the page and the value isn't in the query string, the value is pulled back from the cookie.
I have tried doing my own cookie setting and retrieval in JavaScript as well as now using the jQuery Cookie plugin (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/Cookie). Everything works flawlessly...except when I test it in IE6. IE7 and 8 are fine but IE6 always returns a null value for the items when I attempt to retrieve them from the cookie.
I looked at the cookie information in Firefox and I'm not seeing anything beyond the 2 integer values that I set.
Any ideas on what could be causing this in IE6?
UPDATE: I took the test outside of my code into a basic html. Markup below. Same results where it returns null in IE6 (IETester).
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function()
{
var testId = GetQueryStringValue("test");
if (testId == "")
{
testId = $.cookie("test");
alert(testId);
}
else
{
$.cookie("test", testId);
alert("Test set");
}
document.write(testId);
});
function GetQueryStringValue(name)
{
var regex = new RegExp("[?&]" + name + "(?:=([^&]*))?","i");
var tmpURL = window.location.href;
var results = regex.exec( tmpURL );
if (results == null)
{
return "";
}
else
{
return results[1];
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>