Anyone wanna confirm this?

[Krucifyx]

When I set a cookie of a life span of 0 (meanings the contents are gone when you leave the site/close browser), there doesn't seem to be an actual cookie written to the disk. I was wondering if this was just happening to me, or if anyone else has noticed this? Reason I'm asking is because I store the users id in the cookie instead of having to retrieve it from the database every page visit (database version comparies IP to a registered session to acquire members id), but I'm leaning towards the database check version if the cookie scenario is only a selective event.

[Freddie Bingham]

Setting the cookie timeout to 0 creates a "Session cookie" which isn't stored on the hard drive. You can still access it like a normal cookie but it will vanish when the user closes their browser.

[Krucifyx]

Excellent. Wasn't aware if that was a feature of the recent generation of IE/NS.