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Cookie changes the value after firefox reopenening

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redigast13
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In my website I change a cookie value and a cookie lifetime on POST request. After the cookie is changed my website reloads the page (header: Location {url}). Then if a user will close browser and reopen it the cookie will have the value that was before changing.

Here is a link with php example on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28691649/why-this-cookie-changes-value-after-browser-reopening

Here is php code: ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 86400); session_regenerate_id(true); 

   header('Location: http://localhost/sessiontest/');
   return;

} print_r($_COOKIE); ?>

<form method="post" action=""> <input type="text" name="test"> <input type="submit"> </form>

In my website I change a cookie value and a cookie lifetime on POST request. After the cookie is changed my website reloads the page (header: Location {url}). Then if a user will close browser and reopen it the cookie will have the value that was before changing. Here is a link with php example on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28691649/why-this-cookie-changes-value-after-browser-reopening Here is php code: <?php // url: http://localhost/sessiontest/ session_start(); if (isset($_POST['test'])) { ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 86400); session_regenerate_id(true); header('Location: http://localhost/sessiontest/'); return; } print_r($_COOKIE); ?> <html> <form method="post" action=""> <input type="text" name="test" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> </html>

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guigs
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You may have to change the defaults for cookie storage. For more details:

redigast13
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guigs2 said

You may have to change the defaults for cookie storage. For more details:

Is it a temp solution? I can't say all my users to change browser's settings. This error occurs only in firefox. In chrome browser it works fine. I think that it is incorrect behavior in firefox. Because of this error users are logged out after browser's reopening.