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Re: [PHP3] Cookies and Y2K From: Mark Musone (musone <email protected>)
Date: 01/14/99

I thought if you set the date to a date thats in the past,
it deletes the cookie.

Mark

>
> > Not true. The original cookie standard used a 2-digit date, but that
> > doesn't mean that a cookie with "02" in the year field gets confused. It
> > will interpret that as 2002. See http://www.php.net/y2k.php3
>
> Ok, but if an older browser reads a cookie with the date 02 as 1902, won't
> it then treat it as a session cookie because the date has already passed?
>
> Not of particular importance to PHPLIB since it uses session cookies anyway,
> but I've got a few stored cookies in use.
>
>
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