[Zope] Another stupid question

[Dieter Maurer]

Joe Goldthwaite wrote at 2003-12-27 16:19 -0700:
>Once again, I'm forced to ask a simple question that everyone probably knows
>the answer to but that I can't seem to figure out from any of my multiple
>books or online resources.  I need to leave a semi-permanent cookie to store
>my options. I'm doing it from within and External Method.  I've tried a
>number of things but nothing seems to work.  I'm not sure what the format is
>supposed to be. The Zope Book documents the function like as
>"setCookie(name, value, **kw)" but doesn't tell me anything about what
>"**kw" is.

Look at the cookie specification
"http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html".
It defines the meaningful keyword arguments.

> ...
>But it doesn't work.  The cookie is there with the options set correctly but
>my cookie manager says that it expires at the end of the session and after
>the session ends, the cookie goes away.  Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Note that the time specified in an "expires" must be in a precisely
specified format and in the GMT time zone.

-- 
Dieter