At 6:26 PM -0400 6/23/06, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: >I've run into something rather odd with cookies today. I'm working with this >admin section on a site and I'm setting a cookie that is supposed to be good >for one hour. So in the cookie I have time()+3600 and all was well or that was >until someone fired up IE. It seems that IE refused to set the cookie. After >much swearing at IE, I found that if I set it to time()+7200 the cookie would >be set. > >Not if that wasn't odd enough, in Firefox if I logged in at 6PM the cookie >said it would expire at 8PM which is correct. However, when I logged in via IE >at 6PM it said the cookie would expire at 23:00 hours (11PM for those who >don't know)...so my question is...why is this happening and why does IE do >this? I checked in Opera, Mozilla and Netscape and they all work the same as >Firefox.....
You answered the question yourself, you're testing IE. It sounds like M$ is trying to make time to adapt to their standard. But, you're not alone -- try Google with "IE cookies expiration" tedd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
