Re: Cookie woes with Mac IE4

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 18035
interpreted = N
texte = I read back the cookies with no problems using [ListCookies name=custnum][value][/listcookies]I remember going nuts with IE 4.0 Mac and cookies initially but think it was a typo somewhere. IE 4.0 seems particularly fickle about domain name in cookie matching name of server exactly.Good luck!Sandy >I know people have expressed similar concerns, but I don't recall seeing >a response from PCS. > >What's the problem with cookies and Mac Internet Explorer 4.0? I've >cookie pages that work fine under Navigator for Mac and PC as well as PC >Explorer, but fail completely for Mac Explorer. Explorer accepts, stores >and deletes the cookies as I request (via [setcookie]) but all the >conditional tags based upon [getcookie] look to be ignored completely. > >Is this a problem with the [getcookie] tag that there's a work-around for >(like the method for setting cookies by hand using [returnraw])? Or is >it peculiar to the browser itself, and I just need to detect and warn the >appropriate users that the cookie functions won't work for them? > >Rob Marquardt >Designer/Resident Wirehead >Toast Design > >300 First Avenue North, Suite 150 >Minneapolis MN 55401 >612.330.9863 v >612.321.9424 f >www.toastdesign.com > > Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Cookie woes with Mac IE4 (Bob Minor 1998)
  2. Re: Cookie woes with Mac IE4 (Christer Olsson 1998)
  3. Re: Cookie woes with Mac IE4 (Sandra L. Pitner 1998)
  4. Cookie woes with Mac IE4 (Rob Marquardt 1998)
I read back the cookies with no problems using [ListCookies name=custnum][value][/listcookies]I remember going nuts with IE 4.0 Mac and cookies initially but think it was a typo somewhere. IE 4.0 seems particularly fickle about domain name in cookie matching name of server exactly.Good luck!Sandy >I know people have expressed similar concerns, but I don't recall seeing >a response from PCS. > >What's the problem with cookies and Mac Internet Explorer 4.0? I've >cookie pages that work fine under Navigator for Mac and PC as well as PC >Explorer, but fail completely for Mac Explorer. Explorer accepts, stores >and deletes the cookies as I request (via [setcookie]) but all the >conditional tags based upon [getcookie] look to be ignored completely. > >Is this a problem with the [getcookie] tag that there's a work-around for >(like the method for setting cookies by hand using [returnraw])? Or is >it peculiar to the browser itself, and I just need to detect and warn the >appropriate users that the cookie functions won't work for them? > >Rob Marquardt >Designer/Resident Wirehead >Toast Design > >300 First Avenue North, Suite 150 >Minneapolis MN 55401 >612.330.9863 v >612.321.9424 f >www.toastdesign.com > > Sandra L. Pitner

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