setting cookies with [setcookie]

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 17085
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texte = I was testing out [setcookie] in preparation for using cookies on a site. I had copied and pasted the code out of the PDF reference manual:>[setcookie name=Visits&value=12>&expires=Wednesday, 09-Nov-1999 23:12:40 GMT>&path=/&domain=www.smithmicro.com]changed the name, value and domain entries accordingly and tried it out. Worked like a charm! Later, after some editing and adding a page to try zeroing out the cookie values, I couldn't figure out why it no longer worked. Nothing. After telling Navigator to warn me before setting cookies, I could see that WebCatalog wasn't even trying to send them. Some head pounding later, I realized that I had pulled the [setcookie] tag together to fit on one line:[setcookie name=Visits&value=12&expires=Wednesday, 09-Nov-1999 23:12:40 GMT&path=/&domain=www.smithmicro.com]and that was causing it to fail. After breaking it up like the original, everything worked fine again.This sounds like a problem related to what's described here for the [listcookies] context:>Remember that MIME headers require a linefeed as a line separator (or >carriage return / linefeed combination). If you are using a text editor on the>Macintosh you must past a linefeed in after each line or set the file to a>DOS or UNIX mode.Of course there, the example for setting the cookie doesn't use [setcookie], but instead:>[returnraw]HTTP/1.0 200 OK>Set-Cookie: text=abcd; expires=Wednesday, 01-Dec-1999>23:23:23 GMT; path=/; domain=www.yourdomain.com>Cookie set.>[/returnraw]which is a slightly different placement of linebreaks as well! I don't know of any other tags were a linebreak *within* the tag affects the tag's performance. A line of explanation in the manual would have saved two days of confusion here -- it may have been resolved on the online reference manual, but the link at Pacific Coast (http://test.smithmicro.com/WebDNAReference/) has been coming up with a template not found since I first tried it a few days ago.Rob MarquardtDesigner/Resident WireheadToast Design300 First Avenue North, Suite 150Minneapolis MN 55401612.330.9863 v612.321.9424 fwww.toastdesign.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

setting cookies with [setcookie] (Rob Marquardt 1998)

I was testing out [setcookie] in preparation for using cookies on a site. I had copied and pasted the code out of the PDF reference manual:>[setcookie name=Visits&value=12>&expires=Wednesday, 09-Nov-1999 23:12:40 GMT>&path=/&domain=www.smithmicro.com]changed the name, value and domain entries accordingly and tried it out. Worked like a charm! Later, after some editing and adding a page to try zeroing out the cookie values, I couldn't figure out why it no longer worked. Nothing. After telling Navigator to warn me before setting cookies, I could see that WebCatalog wasn't even trying to send them. Some head pounding later, I realized that I had pulled the [setcookie] tag together to fit on one line:[setcookie name=Visits&value=12&expires=Wednesday, 09-Nov-1999 23:12:40 GMT&path=/&domain=www.smithmicro.com]and that was causing it to fail. After breaking it up like the original, everything worked fine again.This sounds like a problem related to what's described here for the [listcookies] context:>Remember that MIME headers require a linefeed as a line separator (or >carriage return / linefeed combination). If you are using a text editor on the>Macintosh you must past a linefeed in after each line or set the file to a>DOS or UNIX mode.Of course there, the example for setting the cookie doesn't use [setcookie], but instead:>[returnraw]HTTP/1.0 200 OK>Set-Cookie: text=abcd; expires=Wednesday, 01-Dec-1999>23:23:23 GMT; path=/; domain=www.yourdomain.com>Cookie set.>[/returnraw]which is a slightly different placement of linebreaks as well! I don't know of any other tags were a linebreak *within* the tag affects the tag's performance. A line of explanation in the manual would have saved two days of confusion here -- it may have been resolved on the online reference manual, but the link at Pacific Coast (http://test.smithmicro.com/WebDNAReference/) has been coming up with a template not found since I first tried it a few days ago.Rob MarquardtDesigner/Resident WireheadToast Design300 First Avenue North, Suite 150Minneapolis MN 55401612.330.9863 v612.321.9424 fwww.toastdesign.com Rob Marquardt

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