SPUG: ie and cookies (solved)

[Alan]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:15:48AM -0700, Alan wrote:
> Hi folks... I'm having a bit of a weird problem with Apache::Cookie and IE.
> 
> I'm setting a cookie and then doing a redirect as follows:
> 
> my $c = Apache::Cookie->new( $r,
> 		-name => 'userdata',
> 		-value => $cookie,
> 		-expires => '1d',
> 		-path => '/dealers'
> 		);
> 
> $r->content_type('text/html');
> $c->bake;
> $r->header_out("Refresh"=>"0;url=/dealers$request_uri");
> $r->no_cache(1);
> $r->send_http_header;
> $r->print( print_refresh_page_content() );

Turns out the problem was the expires tag... ie wouldn't set the cookie
until it was set to '+1d'.

Weird.

alan
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