This is an interesting conversation that I am having with myself. For the record I thought I would post what I have found. By searching through the UserDB code I found that the author expires the cookie with path='/' so I tried that. It worked! So if anyone wants to use UserDB with cookies they can log out users by having a DTML method like this: <!--#var standard_html_header--> <h2><!--#var title_or_id--></h2> <P> You are now logged off.</P> <!--#call "RESPONSE.expireCookie('__ac', path='/')" --> <!--#var standard_html_footer--> It works with both Netscape and MSIE. Phil A.
I messed around with this some more. Netscape 4.51 Mac and 4.07 WinNT do the same thing. My DTML seems to send the expire as described below. Out of desperation I tried MSIE 4.01 Mac and it worked perfectly. Aack! Has anyone else noticed this with Netscape? Does anyone have a workaround?
I have a building full of Netscape, which I couldn't change if I wanted to because we have a two groups of SGIs. I want to expire cookies set by UserDB to logoff users without quiting Netscape. (Quiting Netscape DOES work BTW).
Any help would be apprecieated. This seems like a Netscape bug though :(
Phil A.
Well, as soon as you ask a question you find it in the docs!
So <!--#call "RESPONSE.expireCookie('__ac')" --> should work. It trys, my browser gives a message that it is getting a cookie __ac='deleted' with an old date. But the cookie is still set and I can still go to private pages!
Any ideas?
Phil A.
How can I expire a cookie in DTML?
I think I can figure out how to do it in an external but it would be more convenient to do it in DTML.