(I had posted this in the Zend php-general mailing list but it did not show up in php.net, so here it is again) Greetings, I am not sure whether this is a bug or a 'feature' (new to PHP). I have a cookie that is set by our password server (NON-PHP) for our domain, whose value is base64 encoded when set. Now, when I try to retrieve the Cookie from my PHP/Apache Web server the $_COOKIE['token'] value is messed up. What I have noticed is the '+' character is being replaced by ' '. I have the magic_quotes_gpc set to 'off' and variables_order set to 'gpcs' in my php.ini. Currently, I have hacked around by painfully parsing the $_SERVER['HTTP_COOKIE'] variable and extracting the 'token' cookie, where its value appears to be intact as set by our password server. I would like to avoid this hack if possible, is there a way to retrieve the 'raw' cookie value without php 'cleansing' it? Thanks MK __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php