session_set_cookie_params on localhost

[elyob]

I want to test locally and can't get past my cookie protection, is this
right? It doesn't seem to work ...

if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']=="127.0.0.1" ) {
session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/', '.localhost');
} else {
session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/', '.domain.com');
}

Thanks

[Gordon Burditt]

Re: session_set_coo kie_params on localhost

>I want to test locally and can't get past my cookie protection, is this[color=blue]
>right? It doesn't seem to work ...
>
>if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']=="127.0.0.1" ) {
> session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/', '.localhost');
>} else {
> session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/', '.domain.com');
>}[/color]

Some versions of IE insist (for some security levels) that you have
a P3P privacy policy defined on your server for cookies to work.
Google "p3p privacy policy" and you might want to choose a Microsoft
site that discusses this.

Gordon L. Burditt

[elyob]

Re: session_set_coo kie_params on localhost


"Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.qmfj2@ burditt.org> wrote in message
news:1277b3734l 8qr5e@corp.supe rnews.com...[color=blue][color=green]
> >I want to test locally and can't get past my cookie protection, is this
>>right? It doesn't seem to work ...
>>
>>if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']=="127.0.0.1" ) {
>> session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/', '.localhost');
>>} else {
>> session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/', '.domain.com');
>>}[/color]
>
> Some versions of IE insist (for some security levels) that you have
> a P3P privacy policy defined on your server for cookies to work.
> Google "p3p privacy policy" and you might want to choose a Microsoft
> site that discusses this.[/color]

Thanks Gordon, will look at this as it's something that I haven't really
considered. However, I am currently developing the area where the cookies
are being used. My issue is that I am unable to test locally as a cookie
isn't being set (I'm using firefox), however it works fine on the remote
server (i.e. .domain.com). I wasted a couple of hours yesterday mucking
about, beacuse I thought there was a problem with the MySQL server .. and it
was the cookie that was at fault.

Will my hack above allow me to test locally (no, is my current answer to
that), or is there another way of testing on localhost I haven't considered?

Thanks

[Rik]

Re: session_set_coo kie_params on localhost

elyob wrote:[color=blue]
> I want to test locally and can't get past my cookie protection, is
> this right? It doesn't seem to work ...
>
> if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']=="127.0.0.1" ) {
> session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/', '.localhost');
> } else {
> session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/', '.domain.com');
> }[/color]

From php.net:
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jordi at jcanals dot net
15-Nov-2004 02:39
Something that has taken me some time to debug: session_set_coo kie_params()
does not work when the domain param is just a one level domain, like it was
a TLD.

I have a site in an intranet and our internal domain is .local, so trying to
set the cookie session to the .local domain does not work:

session_set_coo kie_params(0, '/', '.local'); // Does not work

In all test I've done, setting the domain only works for SLDs and above:

session_set_coo kie_params(0 , '/', '.sld.local'); Does work

This is nothing to do with PHP but the http protocol, witch does not permit
setting cookies for TLDs for obvious security reasons.
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What if you just use session_set_coo kie_params(7200 , '/');
Or does this break the rest of the script/gets caught in your
cookie-protection?

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus