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Re: _COOKIE[] unique?
From: Lüpher Cypher <lupher.cypher@verizon.net>
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 16:11:59 CET
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 16:11:59 CET
newtophp2000@yahoo.com wrote:
> I may be getting confused over nothing here but ...
>
> I was wondering if the _COOKIE global is unqiue to each visitor or is
> it global across all visitor sessions? If it is truly global on the
> server side, is it possible that a cookie from one user's session may
> corrupt another user's session? How would I know which cookie goes
> with which user session/browser?
>
$_COOKIE will only have cookies for current visitor, I believe they are
sent over via http request :) Global in this context means that $_COOKIE
is accessible from anywhere in the script, not that it has the cookies
of all user sessions.
luph
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:50:26 2006