Setting cookie in header

**Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:27 AM

With a PHP page I can easily set a cookie. What about an HTML page? Can
one configure the webserver to set a cookie in the header so that when the
HTML page is requested, a cookie is set on the visitor's computer?

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Charles Sweeney
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**Re: Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:27 AM

Charles Sweeney wrote:

> With a PHP page I can easily set a cookie. What about an HTML page? Can
> one configure the webserver to set a cookie in the header so that when the
> HTML page is requested, a cookie is set on the visitor's computer?
>
> --
> Charles Sweeney
> http://CharlesSweeney.com

maybe by using javascript(?)
(for browsers with javascript enabled i suppose)

**Re: Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:27 AM

Charles Sweeney wrote:

> With a PHP page I can easily set a cookie. What about an HTML page? Can
> one configure the webserver to set a cookie in the header so that when the
> HTML page is requested, a cookie is set on the visitor's computer?
>
> --
> Charles Sweeney
> http://CharlesSweeney.com

Sorry, me again, there is this meta tag to use in an HTML document
<meta http-equiv="Set-Cookie" content="value=n;expires=date; path=url">

**Re: Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:27 AM

Charles Sweeney wrote:

> With a PHP page I can easily set a cookie. What about an HTML page? Can
> one configure the webserver to set a cookie in the header so that when the
> HTML page is requested, a cookie is set on the visitor's computer?
>
> --
> Charles Sweeney
> http://CharlesSweeney.com

Sorry, me again again.
If it does not crash the server,
this might work on some Apache servers(?)

<Files page.html>
Header add Set-Cookie "name=value"
</Files>

**Re: Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:27 AM

Charles Sweeney wrote:

> With a PHP page I can easily set a cookie. What about an HTML page? Can
> one configure the webserver to set a cookie in the header so that when the
> HTML page is requested, a cookie is set on the visitor's computer?
>
> --
> Charles Sweeney
> http://CharlesSweeney.com

Definitely my postings are jinxed today. I meant
<Files page.html>
Header add Set-Cookie "name=value"
</Files>
in the .htaccess file (I did not try this).

**Re: Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:27 AM

cristina wrote

> Charles Sweeney wrote:
>
>> With a PHP page I can easily set a cookie. What about an HTML page?
>> Can one configure the webserver to set a cookie in the header so that
>> when the HTML page is requested, a cookie is set on the visitor's
>> computer?
>>
>> --
>> Charles Sweeney
>> http://CharlesSweeney.com
>
> Definitely my postings are jinxed today. I meant
> <Files page.html>
> Header add Set-Cookie "name=value"
> </Files>
> in the .htaccess file (I did not try this).

Superb Cristina! (All your posts!)

XX

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Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

**Re: Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:27 AM

cristina wrote

> Charles Sweeney wrote:
>
>> With a PHP page I can easily set a cookie. What about an HTML page?
>> Can one configure the webserver to set a cookie in the header so that
>> when the HTML page is requested, a cookie is set on the visitor's
>> computer?
>>
>> --
>> Charles Sweeney
>> http://CharlesSweeney.com
>
> Sorry, me again, there is this meta tag to use in an HTML document
> <meta http-equiv="Set-Cookie" content="value=n;expires=date;
> path=url">

I went for this option...worked a treat!

The things you learn, I thought it had to be in the header.

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Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

**Re: Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:27 AM

Charles Sweeney wrote:

> > Sorry, me again, there is this meta tag to use in an HTML document
> > <meta http-equiv="Set-Cookie" content="value=n;expires=date;
> > path=url">
>
> I went for this option...worked a treat!
>
> The things you learn, I thought it had to be in the header.
>
> --
> Charles Sweeney
> http://CharlesSweeney.com

I suppose it is up to the server
to sort of patch the meta http-equiv tags in the HTTP header.

There is a subtle and obvious difference between setting a cookie
with a CGI script via the HTTP header and
with the meta http-equiv tag
in the <head> element of a static HTML page.
The cookie set by the script via the HTTP header is in the HTTP header
when the page is accessed with HTTP request of
both HEAD and GET methods,
while the cookie set via the meta tag inside the HTML page is set
of course only when the page is accessed with the GET method,
because the cookie cannot be "seen"
unless the page content is accessed (as you know the HEAD method
does not download/access the URL content).
You can see this with the HTTP header checker
http://www.asymptoticdesign.co.uk/cgi-bin/index.pl
and with two very simple test pages I made,
one with a cookie set by a Perl script via the HTTP header
http://www.asymptoticdesign.co.uk/cg...okie_header.pl
and one with a cookie set via the meta http-equiv Set-Cookie tag
http://www.asymptoticdesign.co.uk/au...okie_meta.html

**Re: Setting cookie in header -** 05-14-2007, 01:28 AM

cristina wrote

> Charles Sweeney wrote:
>
>> > Sorry, me again, there is this meta tag to use in an HTML document
>> > <meta http-equiv="Set-Cookie" content="value=n;expires=date;
>> > path=url">
>>
>> I went for this option...worked a treat!
>>
>> The things you learn, I thought it had to be in the header.
>>
>> --
>> Charles Sweeney
>> http://CharlesSweeney.com
>
> I suppose it is up to the server
> to sort of patch the meta http-equiv tags in the HTTP header.
>
> There is a subtle and obvious difference between setting a cookie
> with a CGI script via the HTTP header and
> with the meta http-equiv tag
> in the <head> element of a static HTML page.
> The cookie set by the script via the HTTP header is in the HTTP header
> when the page is accessed with HTTP request of
> both HEAD and GET methods,
> while the cookie set via the meta tag inside the HTML page is set
> of course only when the page is accessed with the GET method,
> because the cookie cannot be "seen"
> unless the page content is accessed (as you know the HEAD method
> does not download/access the URL content).
> You can see this with the HTTP header checker
> http://www.asymptoticdesign.co.uk/cgi-bin/index.pl
> and with two very simple test pages I made,
> one with a cookie set by a Perl script via the HTTP header
> http://www.asymptoticdesign.co.uk/cgi-
bin/aux_test_cookie/set_cookie_he
> ader.pl and one with a cookie set via the meta http-equiv Set-Cookie
> tag
> http://www.asymptoticdesign.co.uk/au...okie_meta.html

Good work Cristina, thank you very much. I like your nice clean design.

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Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com