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My company has had a need recently to issue cookies with a decently sized max-age (1 year). With the value for max-age being a unsigned short in mod_usertrack, and being issued in seconds, we couldn't use a value that large (would exceed the boundries of a unsigned short).

At first, we made a patch to mod_usertrack for that value to be an unsigned long, so we could set a value that large. The problem was that it seemed that only Firefox was RFC compliant, or at least it was the only one honoring max-age as a non-temporary cookie.

Looking at how Google was setting cookies, they were setting the expires header versus max-age. We created a new patch to issue expires, and also setting the value for max-age to months, versus seconds.

From our config:

# the max-age value is set in months
usertrack.cookie-max-age = 12

The patch is attached, if you feel it acceptable, we'd love to have it integrated into the main source.