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PHP’s setcookie() with $expire set but not $domain will blow away the cookie in Internet Explorer (IE)

Spent a whole day figuring out this one.  Yet another reason why Internet Explorer is the bane of web development. Found a plethora of suggested solutions on the net, and even an old bug logged for PHP in 2001, but the reason behind the bug is still a mystery.

As the title states, if you use setcookie() with $expire set and $domain not set, then IE may simply let th… Read more