Reading cookie in other directory...

[youradds]

Hi. Is it possible to read cookies that were set in another directory?

i.e one was made in

http://www.test.com/somedir/,

but I want to read it in

http://www.test.com.

I tried accessing it via the variable (i.e. $COOKIE_NAME), but that came up as blank.

Any help would be apprecited

Andy

 

[piti]

as i can remember, cookies are readable only in the origin dir and it's subdirs, so there's no way how to read your cookie under test.com

 

[sleipnir214]

If you specify a path of "/", it is theoretically available to the entire site. If you do not specify a path, the path is assumed to be the document you are hitting when the cookie is set.

That is, according to Netscape, who invented cookies. You browser's mileage may vary.

 

[youradds]

Could you provide an example of the path thing please sleipnir? I'm not quite sure where it should go/in what format.

Thanks

Andy

 

[sleipnir214]

To make a cookie named "foo" with value "bar" that will expire in one hour available to any page in a web site at "

http://www.domain.foo":

setcookie ("foo", "bar", time()+3600, "/", "

http://www.domain.foo");

To make a cookie named "foo" with value "bar" that will expire in one hour available to any page in the "admin" directory and below in a web site at "

http://www.domain.foo":

setcookie ("foo", "bar", time()+3600, "/admin", "

http://www.domain.foo");

With this last example, the browser should make the cookie "foo" available to the server when at the URL

http://www.domain.foo/admin/index.html

and at

http://www.domain.foo/admin/config/index.html,

but not at

http://www.domain.foo/public/index.html

nor at

http://www.domain.foo/

Netscape's cookie spec states that if you do not specify a path, the browser must assume that it was intended only for the page that was retrieved when the cookie was set.

Point your browser to

http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

 

[youradds]

Ah..thanks

Andy