cookie question

[mikehd]

All right, I've been using js for a few years now, but never really got into using cookies, no need. Now, I need. I can create cookies and access them from the htm pages, but what i need is to access the info from a server.

This is for a cd, and when you finish using it, you connect an internet page, and this page would read the cookie that was set during the cd use (info from a test).

I keep getting Access denied.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated in advance.



Cheers:

:confused:

[Nevermore]

You can't read a cookie with javascript unless that domain set the cookie.

[mikehd]

well, that makes it simple: It can't be done.

That was the way it was looking to me, I was just hoping there was something I hadn't seen.

Ahhh well..........

[Charles]

Originally posted by cijori
You can't read a cookie with javascript unless that domain set the cookie. Sure you can. You just need to set the cookie's "domain" parameter. See http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/cookies.htm and http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/document.htm#1193577.

[Nevermore]

I stand corrected. Thankyou Charles.

[mikehd]

Great!!

Thanks for the links!!

[mikehd]

OK, I found documentation on setting the domain and did so, but this still does not work. this is the code:

function setCookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) {
var curCookie = name + "=" + escape(value) +
((expires) ? "; expires=" + expires.toGMTString() : "") +
((path) ? "; path=" + path : "") +
((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") +
((secure) ? "; secure" : "");
document.cookie = curCookie;
}

OK then I set the cookie here:

setCookie("counter", visits, now, "/", "mydomain.com");

with 'visits' and 'now' being variables.

This is code in the top frame htm page that is located on my hard drive, I have the page that needs to read this cookie in the second frame located on mydomain.com.

Yet with "mydomain.com" set in the cookie, the cookie dosen't work. If I take that part out all together, the cookie works, but cannot be read by my second frame.

What I am doin gwrong????

Cheers in advance!

[mikehd]

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