Getting rid of cookies

[SPrelewicz]

I have a shopping cart type-ish of a thing. I want a user to be able to move around the site and add stuff that gets added to a cookie's value. When they go to the "cart", the CGI reads the cookie and slits/parses it up to fillin the "cart". No problem there.

Now, when a user hits submit, I redirect to a page, "thankyou", that has a SSI that runs a CGI that is supposed to destroy the cookie.

Here's that script:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

#use CGI ':standard';
use CGI;

my $co=new CGI;

$cookie = $co->cookie
(
-name=>'data',
-value=>'',
-path=>'',
-expires=>'Wednesday, 8-Aug-02 23:59:59 GMT',

);

print $co->header(-cookie=>$cookie);


As you can see, I set the date to the past AND the value to null. But after I submit and this page is run, I go to add something else to the "cart" and everything else id still there, IE the cookie has NOT been destroyed. The baffling part is, to debug I printed out the cookie on the thankyou page, and it says the value is null. Ideas?

Thanks

Scott

 

[133tcamel]

hi,
use javascript to destroy the cookie...

before the </head> tag of your page paste this code

<script>
document.cookie='data=';
</script>

is this a secure site? If yes, then change this code to

<script>
document.cookie='data=;secure';
</script>

this should remove the cookie

san.

 

[CherylD]

When you say you are going back to add somethign to your cart, if you are hitting the back button the browser has cached the old stuff. Refresh the page by hitting the shift key and see if things get removed.

 

[SPrelewicz]

Thank you for the help!