Help Me With Cookies, HTML and IE8

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Help Me With Cookies, HTML and IE8

For complex reasons, I have to use HTML with JavaScript to set a cookie. I know it is easy to set and get cookies PHP but I have to put the code in HTML.

I have searched the internet for some examples and I ran a test based on an example. I ran this Javascript code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function putCookie()
{
	cookie_name = "specialcookiehuge";

 	if(document.cookie != document.cookie)
	{
		index = document.cookie.indexOf(cookie_name);
	}
	else
	{
		index = -1;
	}

	if (index == -1)
	{
		document.cookie=cookie_name+"; expires=Monday, 04-Apr-2020 05:00:00 GMT";
	}

}
</SCRIPT>

I tested this code by placing alert statements and I nkow that the line:

document.cookie=cookie_name+"; expires=Monday, 04-Apr-2020 05:00:00 GMT";

gets run.

I tried to find this cookie (Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History ->Settings) And I did not find anything named "specialcookiehuge" in "View Objects" or "View Files".

I guess I could try other browsers, but it would be good to know what I am doing wrong. I do not know if I am really setting a cookie. Is there some additional javascript command I am missing? Or, is the cookie being set but I am not looking in the right place according to the tutorials I saw online?

[Nightflyer]

The Code is correct but probably you are using a date to far in future. Try this:

<script type="text/javascript">

function putCookie()
{
	cookie_name = "specialcookiehuge";

 	if(document.cookie != document.cookie)
	{
		index = document.cookie.indexOf(cookie_name);
	}
	else
	{
		index = -1;
	}

	if (index == -1)
	{
                var d = new Date();
                var d2 = d.getTime() + ( 5 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 );        
                d.setTime( d2 );
		document.cookie=cookie_name+"; expires=" + d.toGMTString();

	}

}

putCookie();

</script>

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Thanks for your suggestion.
I tried your suggested modifications but I did not see any cookie generated.
I think I know where IE8 stores cookies:
C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Tempo rary Internet Files
and I did not see a new cookie there.

I tried Safari:
C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Safari\Cookies
and I did not see a new cooke there either.

[Nightflyer]

You can display your cookie simply with

alert( document.cookie );