The tale of the Cookie Monster

We got some legends in tikiwiki and that one is quite simple : sometimes some users get disconnected wildly after a time, or are said to enable cookies when it's enabled already, such oddities. Actually the fact is that the browsers limits the number of cookies per domain to 20 (I still wonder why, but I spent weeks to figure that out and it's verified).

The Hunt

The cookie monster is not well hidden, it's a common javascript set of functions that centralize manageement of cookies for the menus switching, the tabs memory, and such things.

setCookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure)

• used by other js functions with only 2 first args
• used by js tz_offset with 4 args

getCookie(name)

• used in other js functions

deleteCookie(name, path, domain)

• not used anywhere, surprising