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Bug #23893 setcookie fails if $_GET value is empty
Submitted: 2003-05-30 05:05 UTC Modified: 2003-06-09 08:43 UTC
From: info at splendense dot nl Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: CGI/CLI related
PHP Version: 4.3.2 OS: sunOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-05-30 05:05 UTC] info at splendense dot nl 
I'm running php as CGI API and register globals and i'm trying the following script:

<?php

$something = $_GET["something"];

$value = "this is a value";
if (!setcookie ("TestCookie", $value)) {
	print ("cookie NOT set!");
} else {
	print ("cookie set!");
}

?>

with the following outputs:

1. www.server.com/script.php?something=
outputs: 'cookie set!'

2. www.server.com/script.php
outputs: 'cookie NOT set!'

3. www.server.com/script.php?somehting=value
outputs: 'cookie set!'

4. www.server.com/script.php?something_else=
outputs: 'cookie NOT set!'

so if I try to read a variable (can be GET/COOKIE/POST/...) and it is not explicitly specified, even if it's empty, cookies can't be set anymore.

I think it has to do with being a CGI API, because on another server where it's installed as apache API I don't have this problem.

can anyone verify this?

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 [2003-06-03 02:38 UTC] shane@php.net 
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unable to repro on apache/cgi/win32 with 4.2.3, 4.3.2 or CVS.

Perhaps you should consider (warnings were breaking setting the cookie for me):

<?php

if (isset($_GET["something"]))
	$something = $_GET["something"];

$value = "this is a value";
if (!setcookie ("TestCookie", $value)) {
	print ("cookie NOT set!");
} else {
	print ("cookie set!");
}

?>

Otherwise, you need to provide more details on configuration of your system.
 [2003-06-09 08:43 UTC] sniper@php.net 
No feedback was provided. The bug is being suspended because
we assume that you are no longer experiencing the problem.
If this is not the case and you are able to provide the
information that was requested earlier, please do so and
change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.
 
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