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Aug 19.2008

I have created a HTML/JS page that sets a cookie and reads it when the user returns.

No problems on one page … it works great.

My question is this:
I want to use the same cookie creation in a different sub-directory.

Do I need to change the name of the cookie for this duplicated script
or can I leave it the same in the second directory.

Does it read as a different save/restore pattern when in a different subdirectory
or do I need to change the name regardless if in a different directory or not?

How would I test to assure myself that the same cookie name is saving different
information when used in different directories?

Thanks for any thoughts.

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@justinbarneskinAug 19.2008 — [SIZE="1"]

function setCookie(isName,isValue,daysExpire){

expDate = new Date();

if(daysExpire){ expDate.setTime(expDate.getTime()+(86400000*daysExpire)); }

else{expDate.setTime(expDate.getTime()+24*60*60*1000*365);}

[COLOR="Red"]// document.cookie = isName+"="+escape(isValue)+";expires="+expDate.toGMTString();

document.cookie = isName+"="+escape(isValue)+";expires="+expDate.toGMTString()+"; path=/";[/COLOR]

}



function getCookie(name) {

var nameEQ = name + "=";

var ca = document.cookie.split(';');

for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {

var c = ca[i];

while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);

if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return unescape(c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length));

}

return false;

}



function deleteCookie(name) {

setCookie(name,"",-1);

}

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Try swapping the comment on the two red lines. The one with the "path=/" will allow cookies to be read across the directory
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@JMRKERauthorAug 19.2008 — Thanks, I'll give it a try.

But for my clarification:
The one with the "path=/" will allow cookies to be read across the directory[/QUOTE]
My current cookie does contain the path=/,

so it would look at the stored valued in the root directory?

Use of the path=/some_other_dir_path would cause all cookies to be stored in the specified directory (/some_other_dir_path)?

Is that the jist of what happens?
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