CFCOOKIE with CFLOCATION 1

[KevinFSI]

The book says that if you have a cookie with a cflocation, the cookie will not be set. Does this mean I cannot have CFCOOKIE anywhere on a page with CFLOCATION and expect it to work? That seems to be the case with this app, but I'm having a hard time believing it.

Kevin
slanek@ssd.fsi.com

 

[Jami]

Yes, these tags are incompatible and cannot be used on the same page. You can think of it this way, a cookie is not set until the entire page's contents are received from the browser. If you have cflocation tag on the page, a header is never returned as one normally would be at the end of a page and so the cookie will never be set. You might want to try using a <cfinclude template=&quot;name.cfm&quot;> tag on this page instead if this alternative would work for you. I use this tag anyway over cflocation whenever possible as it requires less server resources. Hope that helps!
Jami

 

[KevinFSI]

Thanks. I figured that was the case, but couldn't come up with a reason why, so thanks for the enlightenment. Kevin
slanek@ssd.fsi.com