setcookie

I am working on a multilingual site so I tried this approach: echo $_COOKIE["lg"]; if (!isset($_COOKIE["lg"])) setcookie("lg", "ro"); echo $_COOKIE["lg"]; The idea is that if the client doesn't have an lg cookie (it is, therefore, the first time they've visited this site) then set a cookie lg = ro for that user. Everything works fine except that if I enter this page for the first time, the first and second echo return nothing. Only if I refresh the page is the cookie set and then both echo print the "ro" string I am expecting. How can I set this cookie in order to see its value from the second

I have 3 domains that are themed the same. If somebody chooses a different theme, I want it to propagate across all 3 domains so their experience stays the same. I was planning to accomplish this by setting a cookie on domain1, redirect to domain2 where the cookie is set, redirect to domain3 where the cookie is set, redirect back. Since the information doesn't need to be secure or protected, this will work fine with no real problems. I hate the idea 3 redirects just to set a cookie on each domain and was looking for something a little more elegant. Do what Google is doing. Yes, Google is doing

I'm working on an application based on AngularJS on client side and Java for my API (Tomcat + Jersey for WS) on server side. Some path of my API are restricted, if the user doesn't have a session the response status returned is 401. On the client side, 401 http status are intercepted to redirect the user to the login page. Once the user is authenticated, I create a session on the server side httpRequest.getSession(true); and the response send to the client does have the Set-cookie instruction in its header : Set-Cookie:JSESSIONID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX; Domain=localhost; Path=/api/; HttpOnly

I want to have an auto login option check for a user. Basically that means a cookie will be stored on the client side. Now the question is, how do I make it secure so the cookie will can not be spoofed/modified. One of my friends suggest having a db table that stores the session_id, user's ip, browser info, etc and then compare it all that information once a user goes to the website again. I feel like having a separate table for that is a bit too much trouble. Is there another way to do it? Maybe with tokens or something like that? The more secure you want this infamous cookie, the more

I am going through some PHP tutorials on how to set cookies. I have noticed that cookies are successfully set on FF4 and IE9, however it does not get set in Chrome (11.0.696.60). The PHP file was served from XAMPP (localhost). I tried the example from w3schools: <?php setcookie("user", "Alex Porter", time()+3600); ?> And from this site (for localhost environments): <?php setcookie("username", "George", false, "/", false); ?> Thanks in advance. Mike West Disabling cookies for IP addresses and localhost was a design decision. See also: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56211