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[nycphp-talk] Cookie

David Mintz vtbludgeon at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 09:48:19 EDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Scott Mattocks <scott at crisscott.com> wrote:

> Michele Waldman wrote:
>
>> I was defined in the subdirectory, but not the root directory.
>>
>> So, I don't think it was an expiration problem.
>>
>
> It isn't that the cookie is expired already. It is that you are setting the
> path as the expiration. You can't just leave it out and hope that the
> function figures out you really meant / to be the path. You have to put
> something where the expiration value goes.



Moreover, are you sure you want to rely on cookies for testing whether a
user is authenticated?

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David Mintz
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