function setCookie( name, value, expires, path, domain, secure )
{
  // set time, in milliseconds
  var today = new Date();
  today.setTime( today.getTime() );
  
  /*
  if the expires variable is set, make the correct
  expires time, the current script below will set
  it for x number of days, to make it for hours,
  delete * 24, for minutes, delete * 60 * 24
  */
  if ( expires )
  {
    expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
  }
  var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) );
  
  document.cookie = name + "=" +escape( value ) +
  ( ( expires ) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString() : "" ) +
  ( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "" ) +
  ( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) +
  ( ( secure ) ? ";secure" : "" );
  
}


function getCookie(c_name){
  if (request.header.cookie)
  {
    c_start=request.header.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=");
    if (c_start!=-1)
    {
      c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1;
      c_end=request.header.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start);
      if (c_end==-1) c_end=request.header.cookie.length;
         return unescape(request.header.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end));
    }
  }
  return "";
}