Persistant Cookies

[John A. Bailo]

This is a general web development question about persistant cookies.

I thought I would use persistant cookies to indentify unique visitors to
my site.

When testing my cookie setting code, I found that the cookies are
persistant in IE6, but in Firefox 1.5 they ended up being session
cookies. Then I see that there is a drop down to set all cookies to
being session cookies (cookies disappear "when I close Firefox").

I'm just wondering -- is it the default for IE to allow persistant
cookies? For Firefox to allow session cookies?

Are there any alternatives if a browser only allows session cookies?

 

[clintonG]

Persistent cookies require a value for the expires attribute. No expires
value = no persistence.
IE CookieView from NirSoft is a free tool that you should go get. There's no
way I've ever seen mentioned for a browser to modify a cookie.

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