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> max-age attribute not working, How do you make a cookie expire?
jmrathbun
post Jun 29 2011, 09:02 PM
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I'm trying to set a cookie that will expire in 24 hours. I've tried
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Set-Cookie: score=10; path=/; expires=time()+86400

and I've tried
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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?
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Darin McGrew
post Jun 30 2011, 02:24 PM
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The expires=... value should be a date/time value, for example:
expires=Thu, 30-Jun-2012 20:23:38 GMT

Something needs to process the "time()+86400" value and convert that into a date/time value in the above format. That isn't happening.
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