document.cookie on Opera and IE for Mac..

[F@bio]

It seems that document.cookie doesn't work both on Internet
Explorer 5 for Mac (OS 9) and Opera 6 for PC... am I doing
something wrong? Or does it just not work? I don't get an
error message, the cookie just simply gets ignored. Do you
have any suggestions?

F@bio

[Michael Winter]

Re: document.cookie on Opera and IE for Mac..

F@bio wrote on 03 Dec 2003:
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> It seems that document.cookie doesn't work both on Internet
> Explorer 5 for Mac (OS 9) and Opera 6 for PC... am I doing
> something wrong? Or does it just not work? I don't get an
> error message, the cookie just simply gets ignored. Do you
> have any suggestions?[/color]

Describe, "ignored". It doesn't appear in the cookie list, or
retrieving a value, in the same session, fails?

The most likely cause is that you aren't setting the expiry date.

Mike

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Michael Winter
M.Winter@blueyo nder.co.uk.invalid (remove ".invalid" to reply)

[F@bio]

Re: document.cookie on Opera and IE for Mac..

> Describe, "ignored". It doesn't appear in the cookie list,
or[color=blue]
> retrieving a value, in the same session, fails?[/color]

....retrieving a value, in the same session, fails. Hope I'm
saying somthing stupid but I think the cookie doesn't get
written, it just stays in the memory.

Anyway, here I published an example:

http://globalmoments.firenze.net/cookie_e.htm

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> The most likely cause is that you aren't setting the[/color]
expiry date.

I'll try this way...

F@bio

[Michael Winter]

Re: document.cookie on Opera and IE for Mac..

F@bio wrote on 04 Dec 2003:
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> Anyway, here I published an example:
> http://globalmoments.firenze.net/cookie_e.htm[/color]

I'd like to point out that that page works fine in Opera 7 (Win).

Your page (reformatted slightly):

You haven't included a DOCTYPE declaration. Before the HTML element,
you should include either this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

or this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

depending upon what elements and attributes you use. The latter is
preferable, but you'll probably need to change how you author pages.

<html>
<head>
<title>Cookie Test</title>
<script language="javas cript">

The attribute, language, is deprecated and doesn't need to be used.
The type attribute, however, is /required/ and must be used. Change
that line (and the one later) to:

<script type="text/javascript">

function updateCookie() {

Neither of these two statements below have terminating semi-colons
(;). That could be part of your problem, but as I said, it worked
nevertheless.

document.cookie =document.myfor m.cookie.value

To access form elements, you should use the 'collection' syntax. It
works across more browsers:

document.cookie = document.forms['myform'].elements['cookie'].value;

Note the semi-colon, above.

location.reload (true)
}
</script>

You don't declare the default scripting language, which you /must/ do
if you use intrinsic events (onclick, etc). Add this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">

</head>

<body>
<script language="javas cript">

Again, no type attribute (above) and no semi-colon (below).

document.write( "Cookie value: "+document.cook ie)
</script>
<form action="" name="myform">
<p>Definy the cookie value: <input type="text" size="60"
name="cookie"></p>
<input type="button" name="setCookie " value="Set Cookie"
onClick="update Cookie()">
</form>
<hr>
On Internet Explorer 5 for Mac (OS 9) and Opera 6 for PC doen't
seem to work!
</body>
</html>

Try these changes and test the page for yourself again: I can't - I
only have IE6 and Opera 7 (both Win), and it works in both of them.

Good luck,
Mike

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Michael Winter
M.Winter@blueyo nder.co.invalid (replace ".invalid" with ".uk")