Opera not saving cookies

JavaScript
1

Hi there. On my website I have a simple shop where you can add items to your cart. To make things nicer, we have Javascript to handle the process to make it faster. The problem I am having is that Opera does not save the cookie that the javascript creates.

Here’s the relevant code:

function createCookie(name,value,days)
{
	var expires = "";
	if (days)
	{
		var date = new Date();
		date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
		expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
	}
	else
		expires = "";

	document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}

Full code: http://kisildalur.is/web/scripts/cart.js

You can see it live if you go to http://kisildalur.is/?p=1&id=7 click on “Kaupa” (Icelandic for Buy) on any item. You will see a nice simple animation once you do. Once an item has been added, a cookie is created but in my Opera 10.53 the cookie does not exist. Browsing any other pages will result in the cart being empty.

What am I doing wrong? :S Works for every other major browser except Opera.

2

I could have sworn I had tested it too but it turns out you were right, I had to run it though escape() in order for it to work on Opera.

Thanks for all the help :slight_smile: This issue has been solved.

3

Do you get an error message in the error console?

Have you tried using Dragonfly to debug the JavaScript? Set a breakpoint at the start of the function and single-step through it, inspecting variables along the way to see what happens.

One thing that has tripped me up when dealing with cookies has been when the value contains non-ASCII characters. Maybe you can try to use escape(value) or encodeURIComponent(value)?

4

Set to Accept Cookies. Still doesn’t work. Is it working in your opera browser? I tested it on other computers with Opera and it has the same problems. If I disable the javascript, the cookie get’s saved. But for some reason, when javascript tries to create the cookie Opera does nothing.

5

Sounds like you have set Opera to not allow cookies.

Go to Tools/Preferences/Advanced and check what options you have set for Cookies.