Cookies - Work under firefox but not IE6 or IE7

[TonyB]

Cookies don't work on IE6, but work fine (same client PC) under Firefox.

Using Apache2.2 and PHP5.

 

I have a network of 7 PC's behind my Router.

One I use to develop and test, one for live.

Problem occurs on all clients (various specs) under IE, works fine under Firefox.

Basically cookies work fine (under IE) when I test locally, but don't get created when server is on one PC and client is another.  Sessions suffer the same problem.

I push the cookie using setcookie('Please_work','a_value');

I dump cookies using print_r($_COOKIE);

I refresh, I get cookie if localhost, empty array if different client / host.

I suspect it's something to do with domains.  ???

I call server 'ww_dell' (from client IE6 http://ww_dell/ pulls up pages fine).

Server httpd.conf has

ServerName ww_dell:80

I've tried commenting this out, this made no difference.

I've added

HostNameLookups On

basically so I can identify the client within PHP (my Router does DHCP, so IP addresses are dynamic).

Within PHP.ini I haven't changed anything, so it contains:

session.cookie_path = /

session.cookie_domain =

 

Is there a way to find what domain the setcookie command defaults to?

Or what domain the client 'thinks it is'.

I know if the two don't match cookies are not going to work.

 

Any help /suggestions appreciated; I have been bashing my head against this one for a couple of weeks now and it's driving me nuts!

Cheers,

Tony

[marmite]

I know nothing about cookies, except to suggest echo'ing $_COOKIE['something']

 

But my main reason for replying is to ~bump~ this as it has not had a reply. Someone must know!

[gingerboy101]

Hi Mate,

 

Sorry just sore this and thought that I would reply, there is yet another handler in the PHP.ini file:

#Weather to use cookies

session.use_cookies = 1

 

Is this set to one (yes)?

 

Cheers

[per1os]

www.php.net/setcookie

 

The way you called setcookie with only a name/value will work for localhost. But for production servers you need it to have varname, value, timetoexpire, path, domain

 

Thats your problem.