Re: [WebDNA] duplicate cookies being stored in browser
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2010
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 105876
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texte = Olin, if I'm not mistaken I've seen the behavior Steve is reporting even when I do not set a path. If this is happening only in Firefox it may be that Firefox is associating each new cookie with a specific path even though that path is not specified in webdna's setcookie tag. Sincerely,Kenneth Grome> Can you post code? If set cookies with different paths then cookies> with the same name are valid for the same domain, which will make> reading cookies tricky (I remember a problem with that years ago> that I had to solve by iterating through the cookies).>>>> From: Steve Raslevich [mailto:sraslevich@northernsoundandlight.com]> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 6:26 AM> To: WebDNA Talk List> Subject: [WebDNA] duplicate cookies being stored in browser>>>> Hi all,>> I am setting cookies with no expiration date which should expire at> the end of the session. These cookies are cleared when logging out> of my site and the browser (firefox) is keeping them in it's list> of cookies with null values. I am experiencing at times that when> logging back in to my site that instead of setting the cookies> already stored in the browser, duplicate cookies are being added to> the list of cookies in the browser. All the cookies are only> removed when the browser is shut down.>> Any idea why the existing cookies would not just have their values> reset instead of an entire new cookie being created? Is the only> way to fix this is to specify an expiration date when setting the> cookie?>> Thanks,> Steve
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Olin, if I'm not mistaken I've seen the behavior Steve is reporting even when I do not set a path. If this is happening only in Firefox it may be that Firefox is associating each new cookie with a specific path even though that path is not specified in webdna's setcookie tag. Sincerely,Kenneth Grome> Can you post code? If set cookies with different paths then cookies> with the same name are valid for the same domain, which will make> reading cookies tricky (I remember a problem with that years ago> that I had to solve by iterating through the cookies).>>>> From: Steve Raslevich [mailto:sraslevich@northernsoundandlight.com]> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 6:26 AM> To: WebDNA
Talk List> Subject: [WebDNA] duplicate cookies being stored in browser>>>> Hi all,>> I am setting cookies with no expiration date which should expire at> the end of the session. These cookies are cleared when logging out> of my site and the browser (firefox) is keeping them in it's list> of cookies with null values. I am experiencing at times that when> logging back in to my site that instead of setting the cookies> already stored in the browser, duplicate cookies are being added to> the list of cookies in the browser. All the cookies are only> removed when the browser is shut down.>> Any idea why the existing cookies would not just have their values> reset instead of an entire new cookie being created? Is the only> way to fix this is to specify an expiration date when setting the> cookie?>> Thanks,> Steve
Kenneth Grome
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