setcookie() array works on linux, not Windows server!

[gelali]

I have dynamic css.php that user can customize by changing different settings through a form. The form will set a cookie with an array of the settings. This works fine on a linux server. But When I tried it on a windows server, it does not work. When I print the values of the cookie, does not print any thing.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Bastien]

serialize the array before setting and unserialize it upon retrieval

Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[gelali]

Thanks for the reply.

I tried that, but the whole thing stopped working on both servers. when I unserialize and print the values out, nothing prints. If I print before unserializing, it prints the values with some slashes and extra charactors. Tried to add stripslashes, but still same problem!
Any ideas?

 

[Bastien]

show code, pls

Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[gelali]

First, get settings, make array, serialize, and set cookie
<?
$submit= $HTTP_POST_VARS['submit'];
$ColorMix = $HTTP_POST_VARS['ColorMix'];
if ($submit=='submit'){
$fs=$HTTP_POST_VARS['textSize'];
if ($ColorMix=='WhiteOnBlack'){
$fc='white';
$bg='black';
$allSettings=array($fs,$fc,$bg);
setcookie ('sitestyle', serialize($allSettings), time()+31536000, '/', 'domain.com', '0');
header("Refresh: 0; URL=$HTTP_REFERER");
}
?>

Then here unserialize get the settings from the cookie

<?php Header ("Content-type: text/css");

$styleVar = unserialize($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[sitestyle]);?>
BODY
{
background: <? echo $styleVar[1];?>;
}

 

[sleipnir214]

If you are running under IIS, then it's probably this line:

header("Refresh: 0; URL=$HTTP_REFERER");


There is a flakey interpretation of the HTTP spec that is unique to IIS. Cookies are only sent by IIS when the HTTP response code is 200. Using the Refresh HTTP header likely changes that status to some other value, so IIS doesn't send the cookie.

This is, according to Mi[&cent;]ro$oft, a feature, not a bug.


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