How to check cookies are enabled in first visit on site

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I saw some examples cookies enabled and disabled but all of them giving disabled in first time visit.

I tried this example: https://www.w3schools.com/php/showphp.asp?filename=demo_cookie5

or

http://www.learningaboutelectronics.com/Articles/How-to-check-if-cookies-are-enabled-using-PHP.php

But see, first time always giving the message cookies are disabled!

Cookies are in the browser. Use Javascript to check if cookies exist. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5968196/check-cookie-if-cookie-exists — Umair Anwar, Jun 10 '19 at 18:03
Im receiving a BOT attack, they disabled javascript and cookies. I have to do something on Backend in this case... — Sérgio Thiago Mendonça, Jun 10 '19 at 18:05
You should add recaptcha to prevent yourself from the bots. On the backend, you cannot usually distinguish between a bot and a normal user. — Umair Anwar, Jun 10 '19 at 18:13
Maybe you can set the cookie and then redirect with a parameter and check for the cookie there? — msg, Jun 10 '19 at 18:15
Msg, i thinked about it. It makes a infinite loop when cookies are disabled. Umair, im using recaptcha in forms, this case is not a form. — Sérgio Thiago Mendonça, Jun 10 '19 at 18:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '19 at 18:05

Answering because I can't comment, but try this answer linked here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6663901/11261849 . Try the javascript method described there and see if that one works on first visit. Checking for cookies enabled in PHP can be hard to check for the first time because the page usually needs to be refreshed in order to check for them being enabled.

How to check cookies are enabled in first visit on site

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