Bj thanks for that post it was very helpful :o)
now I'm just that little less dumber when it comes to PHP
jac
Happy New Year EVERYONE :o)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bj
> Sent: 01 January 2004 00:34
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: mac guy lost on win2000
>
>
> ----- 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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