cookie expiring date

[Québec]

Hi,

How do I get back the expires value of a cookie?
.... alert(document.cookie.expires) ...

Jean Pierre

[Evertjan.]

Québec wrote on 04 sep 2004 in comp.lang.javascript:

How do I get back the expires value of a cookie?
... alert(document.cookie.expires) ...

You don't, Jean Pierre

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[Michael Winter]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:39:08 -0400, Québec <On**@WasEno.ugh> wrote:

How do I get back the expires value of a cookie?

As far I know, you can't. Once the browser has the cookie, the expires (or
Max-Age) value becomes internal: it's only used to decide if the cookie
should be returned when requested.

Mike

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[Québec]

So, I will write it has a cookie info in an array.

Thanks

Jean
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:39:08 -0400, Québec <On**@WasEno.ugh> wrote:

How do I get back the expires value of a cookie?

As far I know, you can't. Once the browser has the cookie, the expires (or
Max-Age) value becomes internal: it's only used to decide if the cookie
should be returned when requested.

Mike

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Replace ".invalid" with ".uk" to reply by e-mail.

[Evertjan.]

Michael Winter wrote on 04 sep 2004 in comp.lang.javascript:

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:39:08 -0400, Qu‚bec <On**@WasEno.ugh> wrote:

How do I get back the expires value of a cookie?

As far I know, you can't. Once the browser has the cookie, the expires
(or Max-Age) value becomes internal: it's only used to decide if the
cookie should be returned when requested.

Which does not mean you cannot include a copy of the the expiry date as a
string in a cookie key.

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[Québec]

Precisely

Jean
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Michael Winter wrote on 04 sep 2004 in comp.lang.javascript:

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:39:08 -0400, Qu,bec <On**@WasEno.ugh> wrote:

How do I get back the expires value of a cookie?

As far I know, you can't. Once the browser has the cookie, the expires
(or Max-Age) value becomes internal: it's only used to decide if the
cookie should be returned when requested.

Which does not mean you cannot include a copy of the the expiry date as a
string in a cookie key.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress,
but let us keep the discussions in the newsgroup)

[Evertjan.]

Québec wrote on 04 sep 2004 in comp.lang.javascript:

"Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.net> a écrit dans le message de

Which does not mean you cannot include a copy of the the expiry date
as a string in a cookie key.

Precisely

Jean

[topposting corrected, please do not toppost on usenet]

It always feels good, Jean Québec, when someone agrees with me.

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