Re: netscape cookies
gail@elara.tripos.com
Tue, 24 Dec 1996 07:51:08 -0600
From: gail@elara.tripos.com
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 07:51:08 -0600
Message-Id: <199612241351.HAA05291@xhost1>
To: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
Subject: Re: netscape cookies
Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
>I'm fairly sure (but not certain) that you can't have an HTTP response
>header name containing a space (ie "Set cookie"). Isnt it
>"Set-cookie"?
Yes - you are right. That was a typo in my e-mail message.
>Equally, your "expires" value has spaces: I think it
should be in quotes.
It works without quotes in Netscape and putting quotes around
it didn't seem to help with IE. This even simpler cookie:
Set-Cookie: foo=test; domain=www3.tripos.com
doesn't result in the variable HTTP_COOKIE being created in
the subsequent shell script. In IE, I get a warning around
the cookie being received and the info looks correct in the
warning message but the cookie disappears after that.
>How are you forcing this? With the META element
>or by doctoring your server?
I don't know what this means. I am not doing anything else special.
Gail