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Re: [PHP3] Cookies and Y2K From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 01/14/99

> I also did a search on developer.netscape.com and found a cookie spec from 97
> which ONLY mentioned a 2 year date. So this means that after year 2000, older
> browsers won't be able to handle cookies. Think of all the poor people who use IE
> 2 which still ships with NT 4.

True, I seem to recall reading somewhere that they went back and "fixed"
the spec but forgot to "fix" the example in the spec. it's a nice bit of
confusion. But, if you test it out by sending a cookie with a year of 01
and set your client forward to 2001 you will see that it actually does
work.

-Rasmus 

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