I've determined that it isn't the redirect causing the cookies not to be set.
If I take out the redirect, and just try to set a cookie w/o a redirect, it
still doesn't set the cookies in IE. Does M$ have any docs on how IE6
handles cookies that I can look this up on?
On Saturday 23 March 2002 11:48 pm, Cees Hek wrote:
> Some browsers don't accept cookies sent allong with a redirect header.
> A simple workaround is to leave your cookie in the header, but move the
> redirect to a META HTTP-EQUIV tag in a blank HTML document.
>
> I'm not sure if IE 6.0 suffers from this but I suspect that this is your
> problem. So this isn't really a mod_perl problem, but likely a browser
> problem.
>
> Also, if you want to see exactly what headers your apache server is
> sending out, or headers your client is sending in, have a look at
> Apache::DumpHeaders. It saves putting those warn statements in your
> code.
>
> Cees
>
> On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 14:44, Jesse and Rebecca Stay wrote:
> > Ok - I got rid of the Apache::Cookie stuff, and am now doing things
> > manually, but it still doesn't generate a cookie in IE. It still works
> > in Netscape. I get a redirect, but no cookie. Here is my code:
> >
> > my $r = Apache->request;
> >
> > $r->content_type('text/html');
> > $r->err_headers_out->add('Set-Cookie' => 'userSession=test;
> > domain=.hainesfamily.org; path=/; expires=Mon, 25-Mar-2002 03:30:43
> > GMT'); $r->headers_out->add(Location => $redir);
> > $r->status(REDIRECT);
> > $r->send_http_header;
> >
> > my $headers_out = $r->headers_out;
> > foreach (keys %$headers_out) {
> > warn "$_=$headers_out->{$_}";
> > }
> >
> > return OK;
> >
> > The warn produces the following:
> >
> > Set-Cookie=userSession=test; domain=.domain.org; path=/; expires=Mon,
> > 25-Mar-2002 03:30:43 GMT at /path/to/script.pm line 326.
> > Location=/r/common/loginWelcome at /path/to/script.pm line 326.
> > Connection=close at /path/to/script.pm line 326.
> > Transfer-Encoding=chunked at /path/to/script.pm line 326.
> > Content-Type=text/html at /path/to/script.pm line 326.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong???
> >
> > -Jesse Stay
> >
> > On Saturday 23 March 2002 06:43 pm, Eric Frazier wrote:
> > > Strong suggestion. Look at an existing cookie that works in IE
> > > whatever, copy it, then look at the header that Apache::Cookie is
> > > making. This oop cookie crap really bugs me since a cookie is just a
> > > stupid header line, not that big of a deal to parse, or write by hand.
> > > Abscraction is for things that make good objects and that are HARD,
> > > cookies in my opinon don't fit into that category.
> > > I strongly bet it has to do with the expire date, also look at the
> > > docs, and the code itself under the expires sub. I haven't done e com
> > > crap for a while now, but I had lots of trouble getting IE to get it
> > > right. Remember Netscape invented the cookie, then IE had to go and
> > > tweak with it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > > At 09:21 PM 3/23/02 -0500, Jesse and Rebecca Stay wrote:
> > > >I guess in particular, does anyone know of any known issues with
> > > >Apache::Cookie and IE6.0 (or any other versions)?
> > > >
> > > >On Saturday 23 March 2002 07:09 pm, Jesse and Rebecca Stay wrote:
> > > >> Here is the code I use (in this particular case it is being used
> > > >> with a redirect, but it doesn't work in any case.):
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> my $cookieContent = Apache::Cookie->new(
> > > >> $r,
> > > >> -name => 'userSession',
> > > >> -value => $cookieValue,
> > > >> -expires => '+365d');
> > > >>
> > > >> $cookieContent->bake();
> > > >>
> > > >> $r->headers_out->set(Location => $redir);
> > > >> $r->status(REDIRECT);
> > > >> $r->send_http_header;
> > > >> return OK;
> > > >>
> > > >> I tried expires => '+1Y', but that didn't work either. Adding the
> > > >> domain doesn't do anything either.
> > > >>
> > > >> On Saturday 23 March 2002 06:44 pm, Frank Wiles wrote:
> > > >> > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:52:14 -0500 Jesse and Rebecca Stay
> > > >>
> > > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >> > > Has anyone had any issues in getting cookies to work with IE
> > > >> > > using mod_perl? I have tried using both CGI::Cookie and
> > > >> > > Apache::Cookie, and in both instances it works just fine under
> > > >> > > Netscape, but on IE it doesn't even try to set the cookie. Any
> > > >> > > ideas?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > What are you expire times on your cookies? We ran into a
> > > >> > situation where I work that all of the Windows machines were in
> > > >> > the wrong time zone and with a 2 hour expire, IE would not set the
> > > >> > cookie because it thought it was already expired. Netscape would
> > > >> > however set the cookie anyway.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > This may not be your problem, but it may be something to think
> > > >> > about.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ---------------------------------
> > > >> > Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> > http://frank.wiles.org
> > > >> > ---------------------------------
> > >
> > > http://www.kwinternet.com/eric
> > > (250) 655 - 9513 (PST Time Zone)
