On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Jon Robison wrote: > My only problem is that I want to provide the users with a logout > button which will delete the cookie from thier browser, yet I cannot > find how!. I have reviewed every module on my system with 'Cookie' > in the name (Apache::Cookie, CGI::Cookie, etc.) and nowhere does it > tell how to do this. There is a small mention of changing the > expiration to < 0, but apparently I am doing it wrong (possible > confusing point is the use of an 'expires' value in the cookie > itself, seperate, I think, from the 'expires' attribute on the > cookie?)
Never tried the negative value for expiration time, but setting it to a very small value, say 1s, works. I'm not sure, but setting the cookie value to null should also have the same effect.