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PHP can't setcookie()

I'm having trouble expiring a cookie in php. here's my code: <?php setcookie('reitinvestor_user', 'null', time()-3600,'',$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']); setcookie('reitinvestor_pass', 'null', time()-3600,'',$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']); echo '<pre>'; print_r($_COOKIE); echo '</pre>'; exit; ?> Everytime i hit refresh, I get this result: Array ...

setcookie does not work

I have a simple file called index.php. I need to pass it a querystring that will be stored inside a never-expiring cookie. The file looks exactly like this : <?php if (isset($_GET['referrer_id'])) { $querystringWithJunk = $_GET['referrer_id']; $querystringArray = explode('/', $querystringWithJunk); setcookie("referrer_id",...

PHP + ie6 + cookies: failing a hello world world for cookies

I tried, to no avail! My problem is php's setcookie() fails in IE6. It's fully functioning (albeit buggy) for Firefox 3 and IE7/8. The following is the code. IE6 displays fail. Simple question: why? <? header('P3P: CP="DEV PSAi NAV STP DEM OTRo NOI IDC DSP COR CURa ADMa OUR IND PHY ONL COM STA"'); setcoo...

How to parse HttpWebResponse.Headers.Keys for a Set-Cookie session id returned.

Hi, i'm trying to create an HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse session with an ASP.NET website to later parse an HTML form through url params (this part i know how to do), but I do not understand how to parse and set a cookie such as the session id. In Fiddler, it shows that the ASP.NET Session ID is returned through Set-Cookie in the respon...

Cookies on localhost with explicit domain

I must be missing some basic thing about cookies. On localhost, when I set a cookie on server side and specify the domain explicitly as localhost (or .localhost). the cookie does not seem to be accepted by some browsers. Firefox 3.5: I checked the HTTP request in Firebug. What I see is: Set-Cookie: name=value; domain=localhost;...

Cookies created with php setcookie() and called through AJAX and XMLHttpRequest disappear on Firefox restart

I'm making a simple ajax login system using cookies to remember username or login automatically on the next visit. Everything works ok, the cookies are set 10 days to the future, I can see them when I go and see Firefox's cookies but they are deleted when I restart the browser. The cookies are set with setcookie() from a php script calle...

setrawcookie in PHP not working properly in FF and Chrome when domain and path set

This works in Safari, FF, Chrome, etc.: setrawcookie('mycookie', 'myvalue', time() + 31556926); This does not work in FF or Chrome: setrawcookie('mycookie', 'myvalue', time() + 31556926, '/', '.localhost'); I have been using PHP for quite some time, and have never seen this behavior before. ...

IE8 not applying cookies across domain appropriately -- only on one machine

I have any interesting problem that has me totally stumped. I have a piece of production code that I built that reads an IBM LTPA token cookie set by a machine managed by another dept, validates it, and uses it to log into a system my group manages (by setting some special cookies). This single sign-on process is entirely transparent t...

Cookie being destroyed when browser quits

hello, I am currently playing around with cookies in my website, the first thing I do is run a check as to whether the user has cookie, if they dont I display a menu wth 3 options if they click it creates a cookie, but if then quit the browser the cookie is destroyed, here is my code, function createRandomId() { $chars = "abcdefg...

Cookie Expiration times

Is is possible to find out when a cookie expires, I have set my cookie up doing this $_COOKIE[] = setcookie("bangUser", $unique, time() + (60*60*24*30)); is possible to print out is expiration date on screen somehow? ...

I don't want a specific path for my cookie using javascript

Hello, I am setting a cookie, but I don't want it to just work for one directory. How do I make it to where it's read throughout my whole site? I'm pretty new at JavaScript, thanks guys! <script> function setCookie(val) { var d = new Date(); d.setDate(d.getDate() + 300); document.cookie = "roster_count" + "=" + escape(val) + "...

php setcookie fails under php5

I created this simple script which will either set a cookie with three values or retrieve the cookies values if they are already set. On my server running PHP4, everything works. On my server with PHP 5 (5.2.11), the script fails to set the cookie in the browser. I already checked if output buffering is enabled in my php.ini and it i...

php setcookie domain

Some application, not written by me, and not in PHP, creates a cookie for the domain "www.domain.com". I am trying to replace that cookie. So in php I did: setcookie('mycookie','mydata',time() + 2*7*24*60*60,'/','www.domain.com', false); However the resulting cookie is created for domain: ".www.domain.com", note the dot "." ahead of ...

urllib2 multiple Set-Cookie headers in response

I am using urllib2 to interact with a website that sends back multiple Set-Cookie headers. However the response header dictionary only contains one - seems the duplicate keys are overriding each other. Is there a way to access duplicate headers with urllib2? ...

sometime SetCookie() not working

Hi I created two file to switch my forum (Language Chinese and English) enForum.php <?php function foo() { global $_COOKIES; setcookie('ForumLangCookie', 'en', time()+3600, '/', '.mysite.com'); echo 'running<br>'; $_COOKIES['ForumLangCookie'] = 'en'; bar(); } // foo() funct...

Incrmenting a Cookies with PHP (Beginner Question)

Hello, I have used sessions before but never cookies. I would like to use cookies for two reasons: 1) it's something new to learn 2) I would like to have the cookie expire in an hour or so (i know in the code example it expires in 40 sec) I am trying to write a basic if statement that if($counter=="1") { //do this second } ...

Strange unset cookie problem

Hi there, I have a strange problem to clear Cookie via PHP. Lets say if I have a domain neobie.net I store "remember user login" cookie name as "USER_INFO" which contains string to identify user login in the next time of revisit. now using firefox, I saw that I have 2 cookies USER_INFO with domain "www.neobie.net" and ".neobie.net" wit...

Multiple Cookie Generation Issue

Hi all, jQuery newbie here. I need to be able to set multiple cookies within the code without have to change out this variable each and every time. Is there any way to make this code generate unique cookies for different pages? As it is now, I'm having to rename that variable for each page that the jQuery animations exist on. (sbbcooki...

Asp.Net Cookie sharing

This is C#.Net code: How to share Cookie between 2 HttpWebRequest calls? Details: I am posting a form in first request from abc.com to xyz.com, this form contains some setting variables which are used by the system. lets say there is a input field in the form which sets the size of grid pages to be displayed in other pages. Once i ha...

Can't set a cookie in Chrome 5

Hi, Since today I am facing a tricky issue with Google Chrome that I've just updated to v5. I have a user login process running on my website. Everything works fine on FF 3.6.x and IE 7, but I just can't set any cookie in Google Chrome 5. I'm mentioning 5 because it worked very well before on v4. My PHP script looks like that: $cook ...