Re: Cookies

by u1067(at)plov.omega.bg

 Date:  Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:17:25 +0100
 To:  HWG techniques <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
 References:  therapids
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Well if the browser settings disallow cookies, neither language will 
help, unless you ckrack IE ;-)

On 4 Jan 2002 at 13:21, Hank Marquardt wrote:

> I don't know how your script is written, but if you use native PHP4
> sessions and have --enable-trans-sid on (the default for some time now)
> you should be OK even with no cookies as the session id is passed as
> part of the header exchange.   The alterntative is to have the session
> id appended to all of your GET and POST activity, meaning slews of
> HIDDEN form variables and an extra variable appended to your urls within
> the cart.
> 
> <tounge in cheek mode>
> ... or you could put up a banner indicating that the site doesn't work
> with IE 6.0 ... kinda the way MS did with MSN *only* serving pages to
> current IE versions for a couple days after the introduction of XP
> </tounge in cheek mode>
> 
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:53:32PM -0500, Andrew wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have a web site that uses a PHP script for a shopping cart... it has
> > worked fine in both IE5 and Netscape for over 6 months..
> > Now I have discovered that there seems to be some issue with the way that IE
> > 6 accepts cookie and the cart will not work in a IE 6 browser......
> > 
> > Does anyone know how Microsoft have change the cookie accept in IE 6??
> > And maybe a way I can resolve this.
> > 
> > Andrew
> > Web Harper Graphics
> > www.webharpergraphics.com
> > 
> > 
> 
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