Setting a timeout for a cookie

[Peter Bengtsson]

On Oct 15, 4:09 pm, sophie_newbie <paulgeele... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering how do you set a 'timeout' or expiry date/time for a
> cookie set using a python cgi script. I can set a cookie ok but I
> dunno how to set the expiry time so it always expires at the end of
> the session.
>

Easy, you don't. It's only if you set a timeout (aka. expires
parameter) that it will last longer than the session.
Just don't set it and it'll last till the browser is shut down.