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Request #600 return true/false for setcookie() ?
Submitted: 1998-07-30 15:37 UTC Modified: 1998-07-30 15:51 UTC
From: stein at lakenet dot no Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 3.0 Final Release OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1998-07-30 15:37 UTC] stein at lakenet dot no 
the setcookie function does'nt seem to be able to test
on if the user client has cancelled/refused the cookie
or not.

if you try to pass a cookie with each page, and make a
record in a database, the database would swell with one
entry for each refused-cookie-pageveiw.

beeing able to do: "if(setcookie(..." (false if denied),
would solve this. don't know if this is possible protocol-
wise, though...

Stein Evenrud

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 [1998-07-30 15:51 UTC] rasmus 
Technically impossible.  SetCookie() simply sets the cookie in a header that gets sent to the browser.  There is no way to tell if the browser accepted the cookie until the next request from that browser.  You will have to test for this yourself in a subsequent page.
 
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