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When does a cookie expire if no date set?
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| vaindioux 2003-04-12, 9:34 pm |
| Hi
When does a cookie expire if no expiration date is set?
1) when the computer is rebooted?
2) When the browser is closed?
Thanks
Patrick | |
| sbragib 2003-04-13, 2:15 am |
| I Think
2) When the browser is closed? | |
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| rentaghost 2003-04-18, 11:21 am |
| when you shut down the computer and have to re-boot, not the browser - it expires only if it has no expirary date. | |
| hershal 2003-05-20, 1:26 pm |
| A Web site may set an expiration date for a cookie it delivers and extend it later without notice to the visitor. If no expiration date is specified, the cookie is deleted when the visitor quits the browser. However, because of typically poor configuration, cookies often default to 30 years as an expiration date. | |
| Patrick Jones 2003-05-30, 1:52 am |
| If no expiration date is set for the cookie, it expires when the browser closes. if the expiration date is set for a future date, the cookie will be stored on the client's disk after the session ends.
I was also confused on this topic but it si expained good in the perkit which i purchased resently from uCertify.com. | |
| suppligi 2003-06-01, 4:32 pm |
| a cookie with no expiration set will "immediately" expire upon closing the browser. | |
| Webmaster 2003-06-01, 8:31 pm |
| Yes, the CIW is looking for the answer "When the browser is closed"
In reality if you have several open browser windows, you need to close all of them to get rid of session cookie (the one with no expiration date is usually called a session cookie) |
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