Expire Cookies when using 'Force Cookie Use'

[designgroop]

Force cookie use causes problems if customers already have a cookie set. As per the OSC docs, this is a known issue. Forcing cookie use looks to me to be essential from a security perspective but on a live site, customers already have a 30 day cookie - which can't be overwritten when 'force cookie use' is turned on.

 

I am wondering if it is possible to kill previous cookies and trying again - before sending customers to cookie_usage.php?

 

Maybe this..

 

setcookie('cookie_test','',time()-3600)

 

But cookies are not my forte. Does anyone know where to start with this?

 

Thanks!

[designgroop]

Anyone got anything to contribute to this?

 

:)

[spooks]

using

 

setcookie('cookie_test','',time()-3600)

may not work if there is any varience between server & local times

 

if you put

 

setcookie('cookie_test','',1);

 

this will give expire time of 1 sec after midnight, January 1st, 1970