Setting Cookie from home page VS deeper page

jerschab · Apr 17, 2001

Hi. I am having trouble trying to set a cookie from a page within the hierarchy of the domain. However, if I place the code to set a cookie within the home page (

http://www.whatever.com)

it works fine. Why am I having problems setting a cookie from a deeper page (

http://www.whatever.com/images/seasons/x.htm)?

Although I have no experience setting cookies prior to this I think the concept is very simple. To keep it simple in testing I just called "setCookie()" from "onLoad" within the <body> tag and my setCookie function is so simple:

function setCookie(){
document.cookie="name=jeremy"
}

Why is this not working from the deeper pages??

RobSchultz · Apr 17, 2001

jerschab,

Try this...

Code:

function setCookie(){
document.cookie=&quot;name=jeremy;path=/&quot;
}

This will allow any page below (in hierarchy) the page that sets the cookie. You call it the same way as usual. Rob
robschultz@yahoo.com
-Focus on the solution to the problem, not the obstacles in the way.-

jerschab · Apr 17, 2001

Unfortunately the ";path=/" method isn't doing anything - although I think I understand it (for reading cookies from other pages in the hierarchy really, right?). Do I have to set my cookie in the home page area only??? This can't be because webmonkey.com has a tutorial that sets a cookie on a really deep page. I still can't set this suckr from anything but the home page. Any more ideas?? Please...

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Setting Cookie from home page VS deeper page

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