----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Miller"
> This is a sample cookie:
> setcookie("tripped",0,time()+300,"/");
Google on "php problem cookie ie6" told me this:
"It's the time value of the cookie that's at issue here.
Set the expiration time to a higher value.
"I had two cookies that I was setting - the first was for session-ish
information (which had an expiration time of at least 3600). It worked fine
in ie6. The second cookie was engineered to have a very short life since
it's contents were consumed quickly by the user, so I set the expiration
time to 30 seconds from now. That cookie worked fine in IE 5.5, Moz, KHTML,
etc, but didn't work at all in ie6.
"I was setting the cookie using php, and I was calculating the base time
using the php time() function. time() was returning to me the server time,
which i noticed was behind the client machine by a few minutes. ie6 never
took the cookie, which had an expiration date it percived to be in the
'past'. When I increased the expiration date to make up for the difference
in system times IE accepted the cookie. "
Server time could be a long way out from client machine, especially if
they're in different countries. Maybe you should get JS to put the local
system time into a hidden field on the login form and use that as a base?
Sheesh, Microsoft, them and their great ideas
Oh other articles said IE6 has a bug stops it accepting cookies from domains
with an underscore _ in the name... what domain are you tesing on?
Bj
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