Trouble Setting Cookies

Fri Aug 13 19:18:50 EDT 2010

Gregory,

If possible, send me the url for the offending page, let me look at the
headers. cookies are annoying believe me.

For example, I think you might need a space between the colon and the cookie
key name...

(an && instead of &)

Andre

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Gregory Lypny
<gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>wrote:

> Hi Andre,
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not familiar with curl.  I installed FireBug but I'm not
> clear on how to use it.  I'm not an experienced web developer.  My server is
> On-Rev.
>
> This afternoon I tried something even simpler than before and that is a
> Submit button that executes this script:
>
> <?rev
> put new header "Set-Cookie: " & "myCookie" & "=" & 666 & ";path=/"
> put "Done."  && the long date && the long time into thePage
> put thePage
> ?>
>
> On a page called "test.irev", I have an HTML object that executes the
> following (via "include") when the page is loaded:
>
> <?rev
> put $_SERVER["HTTP_COOKIE"] into theCookies
> put theCookies
> ?>
>
> Once again "myCookie" is not among the cookies shown on "test.irev" when
> that page is visited after setting the cookie.
>
> I checked my error log at On_Rev and found the following.  I don't
> understand why is says that the file "test.irev" does not exist when the
> page was, in fact, loaded!
>
> [Fri Aug 13 15:54:14 2010] [error] [client myIP] File does not exist:
> /home/myDomain/public_html/404.shtml, referer:
> http://myDomain.on-rev.com/test.irev
> [Fri Aug 13 15:54:14 2010] [error] [client myIP] File does not exist:
> /home/myDomain/public_html/favicon.ico, referer:
> http://myDomain.on-rev.com/test.irev
>
> I'm getting the sinking feeling that I should be looking at alternatives to
> cookies for managing sessions with my users.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gregory
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Andre wrote:
>
> > Gregory,
> >
> > Can you do a curl to your host and glue the answer? We need to check if
> the
> > Set-Cookies headers are actually comming thru.
> >
> > Andre
> > PS: Using firebug to inspect the request is also ok.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Gregory Lypny
> > <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> Having trouble setting my first cookies at On-Rev.  My iRev script pulls
> in
> >> a page template and puts it into a variable called thePage.  thePage
> starts
> >> with the usual stuff, such as
> >>
> >> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "
> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> >> <html>
> >> <head>
> >> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
> >> <title>Sign In</title>
> >>
> >> My feeble understanding of setting cookies is that I must send off the
> >> request before I load the page, so I created a simple cookie like this
> >>
> >>       put "myCookie=" into theCookie
> >>       put 6666 after theCookie
> >>
> >> I then sent if off with
> >>
> >>       put new header ("Set-Cookie:" && theCookie)
> >>
> >> and then immediately followed with
> >>
> >>       put thePage
> >>
> >> But the cookie does not appear in Safari's cookie listing or by checking
> >> $_SERVER["HTTP_COOKIE"].  The latter, however, gives me two cookies set
> by .
> >> revolutionss.com, which presumably has something to do with my On-Rev
> >> account.
> >>
> >> I also tried Andre Garzia's function
> >>
> >>       setCookie "myCookie",6666
> >>
> >> but struck out there too.  What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Gregory
>
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