cookie problem on new server

[phpman]

ok this is really strange for me. everything worked great before we moved servers and now cookies don't get set in IE or NS7. I didn't make any changes to the code prior to the move or after it. the really weird part is that it works if I do not use a time, but it nevers gets saved to my hard drive like all the other sites do and like it did before.

setcookie ("userid", $cookie_id, 0);

but if I use time it fails

setcookie("userid", $cookie_id, time());


it doesn't even matter if I took add /folder or just make it "/". it will not save a cookie for IE, firefox works great but not IE.

we are on php4.3.4 and mysql 4.XX

as far as know it is the same version we just came off of. DNS has resolved and working just fine, as far as I know.

could it be a server setting or something?

the server is about 10 minutes fast compared to teh browser (as far as I can tell) so even doing this doesn't work

setcookie("userid", $cookie_id, time()+3600 );

[Electroman]

Is it a company hosting the site or are you the owner of the server? If its a company I'd create a trouble ticket and tell them your scripts worked fine till the change and they might tell you if they have certain settings that are causing the problem.

[phpman]

no, it is in a datacenter. but they said it is nothing on the server that is stopping it so I have to prove it to them. it has something to do with time but not sure. the time on the server is correct so that wasn't it.

[Electroman]

Does it work if you have a blank page that places a cookie? If not them so them a simple php file that would create a cookie that lasts a day then get them to admit it should work and show them?

[phpman]

well I didn't change anythign and now it works, so it must have beeneither a sever setting.

but anytime I gave it a time it would not set. the admin have seen it and they say it is a php problem so you know how far that went.

thanks for input

[Electroman]

BTW I noticed your link in your signiture doesn't work
And then I navigated the site to find the item and then it wouldn't download either that way, gave a 403 error even though the message above the link warned of it if you didn't use that page .

[phpman]

thanks, I forgot to update that link after the site was upgraded. it is fixed now.

but you say you can't downlaod it? I didn't have any problems. what OS and browser are you using?

[Electroman]

I'm using XP Pro SP1 & IE 6.

The Image on the error page doesn't load either:
http://www.snippetlibrary.com/down_z...s/snippet5.gif

[kows]

That page's table alignment sucks.

Also, I'm using Win2000 and can download it fine.

[phpman]

thanks again. url was wrong in the error file.

I use IE6 and didn't have any problems. how did you try to download it? the only way is to click on the zip image on that page.

[Electroman]

Originally posted by phpman
The only way is to click on the zip image on that page.

Thats the one, that what I was doing . I'm trying to find another item that has a zip attached so i can see if the same happens but can't seem to find any others (Yet).

[Electroman]

Yeah, same just happened for the Movie_db.zip .

[Electroman]

I don't have to register do I?

[phpman]

no, it is a free download.

do you have "Privacy Control Software" loaded? if so disable it. also it might be your firewall.

what happens when you click on it? can you load a screen shot?

[Electroman]

Here you go. No "Privacy Control Software" software loaded but I'll try disabling my software firewall (Hardware one shouldn't have any effect, just stops Incomming Connections).

[Electroman]

Cool, seems I did have "Privacy Control Software", didn't notice it was on by default in my firewall. Just reinstalled it so that'll be why its on now . Got the file once I turned it off. Thanx.

[phpman]

cool, glad you found it