Case Of the Lazarus Cookie

[abraxas]

Hello Again,
Does anyone know of some resource(s) about cookies, besides Netscape and Microsoft sites? (A microsoft cookie presentation transcript terminated my browser!). Cookiecentral and Dale Bewely have vanished and I can't find any solid info on how cookies are stored/indexed/whatever. How can I make a cookie stay dead!?!

An instance. Wrote a shopping cart in Perl using Mat Wright's cookie.lib. The script set a cookie that only contained a pointer (not a cart) to a file (cart) on a server and this all worked perfectly on my local network. Until I uploaded to hyperart server, then neither hypermart or my local network version would function. Prior versions (I try to save my work before ambitious alterations) would do nothing either.

A cookie I set previously several days (and versions) ago say &SetCookie('AFILENAME,'XDFUJJK')
keeps coming back even though the script I'm running ONLY (a text search for AFILENAME reveals no match and there is only one external call, require 'cookie.lib') refers to JWCARTFILE (instead of AFILENAME). Both these names appear as cookies with associated filenames. The exp date is set 24 hours hence but I have set (sent) them, subsequently, back in time. I downloaded cookieCrusher and zapped both cookies with it but on rerunning script, Tadaaaa! AFILENAME appears along with JWCARTFILE. I think I'm missing something.

So a webpage on how Win95/or any platform, manages cookies and just what is that index.dat file anyway in cookies dir, would be a great help.
Many thanks
abraxas

 

[abraxas]

Cookiecentral has re-appeared! I'm going to try and get my cookie phd there
Kind Regards
abraxas

 

[goBoating]

'just a thought, .... but are you using a cache server? If so, you may be getting old versions of the stuff back from there, thus recreating the cookie via the older version of the code.
?maybe?


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[abraxas]

Special Thanks to GoBoating,
Caching was and is the problem. I am still waiting for the last script modification to refresh on the hypermart server (that would be the profanity modification). I am not sure how long the caching (or how it is implemented for that matter)"service" will be available. It never use to be.
regards
abraxas