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php SetCookie works in Firefox, but not IE

Answer 1

A:

One browser could reacting more quickly to the header redirect you're doing then the other.

Try turning the commands around:

 setcookie("test", "8kFL4IZfjkBmV7AC", time()+60*60, '/');
 header("location: test2.php");

Pekka 2010-07-21 21:14:55

I have done this and have also put sleep(2) between these two lines but still no difference :-(

matt 2010-07-21 21:17:31

The order of these statements should have no affect on the response. According to RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1), section 6.1 (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec6.html), the `Status` header is the first line of the response, followed by other headers (of which the cookie is one).

Steve Madsen 2010-07-22 00:47:25

Answer 2

A:

looking at your example, you have got header() first then setcookie(). Try and setcookie() first and then do the header();

PHPology 2010-07-21 21:17:36

Answer 3

+1 A:

I also have this problem. I noticed this on the php website from somebody.

When setting a cookie on a page that redirects, the cookie must be set after the call to header('Location: ....');

http://php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

I'm still unsure

snailpaceProgrammer 2010-07-21 21:22:16

Answer 4

+1 A:

Are you working on a localhost environment? IE http://localhost to test? If so this can cause some issues with the set cookie. My suggestion is setting the domain field for the setcookie, if you are working on localhost try this: setcookie("username", "George", false, "/", false); or set a vhost with a servername other than localhost and use that for the domain.

Setting the cookie with the domain would be something like:

setcookie("test", "8kFL4IZfjkBmV7AC", time()+60*60, '/', '.domain.com');

Hopefully that helps ya out.

Brad F Jacobs 2010-07-21 23:18:57

Answer 5

A:

Some browsers prevent the setting of cookies before user interaction has occurred. I know Safari does, and I believe IE works the same way. Basically, all cookies will be ignored on the first response received from your site. I suspect that if you instead try something like the following, it will work as expected:

test0.html

<html>
  <body>
    <a href="test1.php">force user interaction</a>
  </body>
</html>

test1.php

<?php
  header("location: test2.php");
  setcookie("test", "8kFL4IZfjkBmV7AC", time()+60*60, '/');
  exit;
?>

test2.php

<?php
  var_dump($_COOKIE);
?>

Brandon Gano 2010-07-22 00:40:25

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