scriptygoddessI've been having a problem for a long time setting cookies on Netscape. This morning, with some downtime on my hands I finally figured out what the deal was. It was this comment in the PHP manual that finally turned the light on for me:
Netscape cookie spec says that you need to specify a DOMAIN with two periods – screw all the redirection to www.domain.com.
Use DOMAIN=.domain.com
or actually in php you'd just use
setcookie("TEST",$VALUE,time()+60,"/",".test.com");
THAT did the trick!!
Another thing you should know – (I actually knew this from before (after an agonizing trial and error), but I'm writing it down should I ever forget): If you try to set a cookie and ACCESS the value of that cookie in the same "page load" it won't work. It'll see the cookie the next time the page is loaded… but it won't see it in the same "session" as setting the cookie.
Now, please excuse me while I dig through some of my cookie-related scripts here and make this fix… =sigh=
