max-age attribute not working, How do you make a cookie expire? Options

[jmrathbun]

I'm trying to set a cookie that will expire in 24 hours. I've tried

CODE

Set-Cookie: score=10; path=/; expires=time()+86400

and I've tried

CODE

Set-Cookie: score=10; path=/; max-age=86400

both on Unix and on Windows servers, but in every case I get a session cookie only.

What's wrong?

[Darin McGrew]

this code goes at the top of the html document

No, that is incorrect. That code might go at the top of a Perl CGI program that generates an HTML document, but it does not go at the top of a plain HTML document.