Setting expirty data on a cookie

Jon Ribbens jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk
Fri Apr 25 20:05:07 EDT 2008


On 2008-04-25, David <wizzardx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another note: 'expires' is apprantly a legacy attribute for early
> Netscape browsers. The RFC and python source comments suggest that you
> use 'Max-Age' instead.

Theoretically, yes. In practice, no. *Nobody* uses the new-style
cookies, everyone uses Netscape ones.



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