On Apr 08, Zeqing Xia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem with setting the cookie in a REDIRECT. Basically,
> I'm doing this in a handler:
>
> $r->headers_out->add('Set-Cookie' => $cookie);
> $r->headers_out->add('Location' => $location);
> return REDIRECT;
>
> The $location is hit but the cookie is missing when I debug the handler
> for $location.
>
> I have tried various remedies, such as no_cache(),
> unset('Content-length'), etc. But nothing seems have effect.
>
> Can anyone point out what is the problem? Thanks so much.
This is a misfeature of some browsers. (Particular versions of
Internet Explorer, if I remember correctly.)
Some people have reported success with some browsers depending on
the order the headers appear, but the most bullet-proof solution
is to do a redirect with a header or meta-tag refresh instead of
an redirect. (Which is definitely not as user-friendly, but works
for all cookie-enabled browsers that I've come across.)
So you'd want to do something like:
$r->headers_out->add('Set-Cookie' => $cookie);
$r->headers_out->add('Refresh' => "0; url=$location");
$r->print("Sending you <a href='$location'>here</a>.");
return OK;
Jim
