>From last week: Tested the cookie-setting page with the Httpanalyzer. It (header info) does show the cookie being set as I wanted it, and I can see the correct expiration date. I reverted back to original code to simply set the expires attribute (on cfcookie) as 30 (for 30 days). All looked fine.
I guess I can only see the cookie information in the header of the template where the cookie is actually being set. There isn't a *cookie reader* that can give expiration date, etc.? Thanks for help, Dave. Helped me clarify what was going on and with a tool to gather information. E. Keith Dodd Wings of Eagles Services www.wingserv.com > First, when you set the expiration date, that information is sent to the > browser, but not returned when the browser sends the cookie back to the > server. It's only used by the browser to determine when it should get rid of > the cookie. So, you won't see that information anywhere in your CF > variables, using CFDUMP. > > Second, when you set a cookie, the browser sees something like this: > > Set-Cookie: CFID=251232; expires=Sun, 27-Sep-2037 00:00:00 GMT; > path=/; > > This HTTP header contains all the information for the cookie, including the > expiration date. When you use EXPIRES="NEVER", as in the above example, the > cookie is actually set to expire in the relatively distant future, many > years from now. > > Now, when I used CFCOOKIE like so: > > <cfcookie name="foo" value="bar" expires="2/27/2002"> > > it generated this: > > Set-Cookie: FOO=bar;expires=Wed, 27-Feb-2002 22:22:05 GMT;path=/ > > You might find it useful to look at these HTTP headers. One easy way to do > that is with HTTP Analyzer: > > http://ftp.coolfusion.com/pub/ods/httpanalyzer/httpanalyzer.zip > > You may also want to play around with different date formats; I seem to > recall just generating a valid GMT date myself in the past, and using that, > but it's been a while. > > Finally, if you want the cookie to expire in 30 days, why not just say so? > > <cfcookie name="foo" value="bar" expires="30"> > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > voice: (202) 797-5496 > fax: (202) 797-5444 > > - [This E-mail scanned for viruses by declude AntiVirus Software] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
