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how to force early expiration on cookies?


dlf1987

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I'm releasing an updated shopping cart on my website and customers with older cart cookies will have some problems. Their cookies are set to expire 30 days after the cookie is created. So how can i force the cookies to expire that were created, lets say yesterday, without making the new customers cart cookies expire. I'm sure its simple, just cant figure it out  :'(

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Once you have set a cookie, it is out of your hands. The only thing you can do the next time someone visits your site is to either detect the older style information and ignore it or overwrite the older style information with different values/expire time.

 

I would suggest creating a cookie that holds the software version number and if the cookie does not exist or if it does exist but has a version number older than the current version, take appropriate action.

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