>> I thought the browser then resends the cookie on every consecutive >> request to the domain/path specified by the initial "set-cookie" >> http header from the server
> This doesn't happen automatically, in your page you've got to ask for > it. It does happen automatically. By the time, e.g. PHP looks at $_COOKIE, the data has already been transmitted to the web server with the request. Unless you mean something else by "ask for it".... ["When it sends a request to an origin server, the user agent sends a Cookie request header to the origin server if it has cookies that are applicable to the request based on the request-host, the request-URI, [and] the cookie's age." (RFC 2109)] -- Sandy
