Closed Bug 226812 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

cookie lifetime settings may not work as expected on existing cookies

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

PowerPC
Linux
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 210698

People

(Reporter: sgblanch, Assigned: darin.moz)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030614 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030614 Cookies stored previous to limiting the lifetime of cookies to the current session will still retain their old expiration dates. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make sure that there are no limits on the lifetime of cookies 2. check the cookie manager to see if there are some 'permanant' cookies 3. limit the lifetime of cookies to the current session 4. quit mozilla & reopen it 5. verify that the original cookies still exist and have their original expiration dates using the cookie manager Actual Results: Some cookies remained across invocations of the program even when the lifetime of cookies was limited to the current session only. Expected Results: Most users will expect that limiting cookie lifetimes will apply to cookies that have already been stored.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210698 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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