[ic] too many cookies?

Mike Heins interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Fri Jul 20 17:23:00 2001


Quoting Tim Mirecki (tim@q5.ca):
> Hi, I am having a strange problem with cookies.
> 
> I am trying to set a bunch of cookies to remember user information, but I
> get some kind of session failure (all scratch variables are reset, and the
> customer is returned to the beginning)
> 
> I am setting them like this:
> 
>   [set_cookie name="fname" value="[value fname]"]
>   [set_cookie name="address1" value="[value address1]"]
>   [set_cookie name="address2" value="[value address2]"]
>   [set_cookie name="city" value="[value city]"]
>   [set_cookie name="zip" value="[value name=zip filter=word]"]
> 
> etc… After 7 cookies I get the session failure problem. Cookie number 8 will
> cause the failure (I’m assuming it’s a session failure). There is nothing in
> either error.log file to indicate what is happening.
> 
> Has anyone had a similar experience? I read the docs about cookies, but
> couldn’t find anything about limits.

Not a clue other than limits to cookies by a browser.

But why would you need the session if you have the cookies? And vice
versa? 8-)

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