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I am trying to set a cookie and redirect. Using Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (64 bit) with PHP 5.3.3-7+squeeze19 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Feb 17 2014 10:10:23) and Apache/2.2.16 (Debian).
For some reason this works:
<?php
$cookie_name = $_GET['a'];
$cookie_value = $_GET['b'];
setcookie($_GET['a'], $_GET['b'], time() + (86400 * 30), "/"); // 86400 = 1 day
?>
But this does not:
<?php
$cookie_name = $_GET['a'];
$cookie_value = $_GET['b'];
setcookie($_GET['a'], $_GET['b'], time() + (86400 * 30), "/"); // 86400 = 1 day
header("Location: http://www.example.com");
exit;
?>
Even after several page loads. I've tried adding error reporting to the top of my code, but I don't see any errors when I load the page nor in the Apache log (/var/log/apache2/error.log):
error_reporting(E_ALL);ini_set('display_errors','1');
For some reason whenever I redirect, even using javascript as below, a cookie will not add.
<?php
$cookie_name = $_GET['a'];
$cookie_value = $_GET['b'];
setcookie($_GET['a'], $_GET['b'], time() + (86400 * 30), "/"); // 86400 = 1 day
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://www.example.com">
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location.href = "http://www.example.com"
</script>
<title>Page Redirection</title>
</head>
<body>
If you are not redirected, follow <a href='http://www.example.com'>this link</a>!
</body>
</html>
Why does the first example work but not the others?
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asked Dec 05 '25 09:12
Use include rather than redirect
This also saves the Browser a round trip HTTP request
<?php
$cookie_name = $_GET['a'];
$cookie_value = $_GET['b'];
setcookie($_GET['a'], $_GET['b'], time() + (86400 * 30), "/"); // 86400 = 1 day
include('/home/user/public_html/index.html');
exit;
?>
While I prefer include over a redirect header, your cookie should work. I have tested and it works just like it should.
In my test I redirected to another domain. The cookie is set in the domain where the PHP script resides.
setcookie('test', 'test', time() + (86400 * 30), "/");
header("Location: http://www.intel.com");
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