setting a cookie outside the homepage

[jerschab]

Sorry to ask the same question again, but I know someone has the answer...

I can set a cookie from

http://www.(homepage).com,

but I can't set it from

http://www.(homepage).com/folder/folder2/page.htm.

I have tried setting the "path=/", but the error in Microsoft Debugger remains the same "Object doesn't support this property or method" - and always breaks at the line where I actually set the cookie (document.cookie=the_cookie --> where the_cookie="user=jeremy;expires="+expire_date). I have tried to mimick exactly what other tutorial web pages are doing, but no luck. There has to be a simple answer, but it is always those simple ones that piss you off the most.

How about testing the page where I have been trying to just make this little cookie stuff work...

http://www.whynotbuy.com/thunder/seasons/cookie.htm

and see if you can help??? Thanks.

 

[aperfectcircle]

I think if you just change the <form name=cookie method=&quot;get&quot;> to <form> it will work fine.

 

[jerschab]

No, that isn't it, but thank you for your response...if you went to the web page (

http://www.whynotbuy.com/thunder/seasons/cookie.htm)

you would see that you can call my (setCookie()) cookie function from either the form button element (as you noticed)

or

from the <a href=&quot;#&quot; onClick=&quot;setCookie(); return false;&quot;>setcookie</a> link...

Any other clues here???

 

[aperfectcircle]

Did you try it?
I copied the code to a file on my machine and I got the same error you were describing (Object doesn't support this property or method) when I used both the button and the link. When I changed the <form name=cookie method=&quot;get&quot;> to <form> it worked fine...

 

[aperfectcircle]

I think problem is the name=cookie. When you refer to document.cookie it thinks you're talking about the form, I believe...

 

[jerschab]

yes, yes, yes...it should be name=&quot;cookie&quot; not name=cookie...

I have fixed it and now it works...I knew this was a simple oversight...check it out and thank you!!

 

[aperfectcircle]

I just tried it and I still got the same error. (I checked the code and name=&quot;cookie&quot; was there...)
If I were you I would take the name thing completely out of there so it is just <form method=&quot;get&quot;>. Or change the name to something besides cookie...

 

[jerschab]

I changed the <form> part to <form name=&quot;cookieForm&quot;>...it seems that when the form was named &quot;cookie&quot; the document.cookie function was probably confused as you said...anyway, try it again for me to see if it works...thanks for all your help!

 

[aperfectcircle]

Works fine for me now...

Glad I could help.