function Set_Cookie( name, value, expires, path, domain, secure )
{
// set time, it's 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;
}
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" : "" );
}

// this fixes an issue with the old method, ambiguous values
// with this test document.cookie.indexOf( name + "=" );
function Get_Cookie( check_name ) {
	// first we'll split this cookie up into name/value pairs
	// note: document.cookie only returns name=value, not the other components
	var a_all_cookies = document.cookie.split( ';' );
	var a_temp_cookie = '';
	var cookie_name = '';
	var cookie_value = '';
	var b_cookie_found = false; // set boolean t/f default f

	for ( i = 0; i < a_all_cookies.length; i++ )
	{
		// now we'll split apart each name=value pair
		a_temp_cookie = a_all_cookies[i].split( '=' );


		// and trim left/right whitespace while we're at it
		cookie_name = a_temp_cookie[0].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');

		// if the extracted name matches passed check_name
		if ( cookie_name == check_name )
		{
			b_cookie_found = true;
			// we need to handle case where cookie has no value but exists (no = sign, that is):
			if ( a_temp_cookie.length > 1 )
			{
				cookie_value = unescape( a_temp_cookie[1].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') );
			}
			// note that in cases where cookie is initialized but no value, null is returned
			return cookie_value;
			break;
		}
		a_temp_cookie = null;
		cookie_name = '';
	}
	if ( !b_cookie_found )
	{
		return null;
	}
}

function encode(url) //Function to encode URL.
{
// The Javascript escape and unescape functions do not correspond
// with what browsers actually do...
var SAFECHARS = "0123456789" + // Numeric
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" + // Alphabetic
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" +
"-_.!~*'()"; // RFC2396 Mark characters
var HEX = "0123456789ABCDEF";

var plaintext = url;
var encoded = "";
for (var i = 0; i < plaintext.length; i++ ) {
var ch = plaintext.charAt(i);
if (ch == " ") {
encoded += "+"; // x-www-urlencoded, rather than %20
} else if (SAFECHARS.indexOf(ch) != -1) {
encoded += ch;
} else {
var charCode = ch.charCodeAt(0);
if (charCode > 255) {
alert( "Unicode Character '" 
+ ch 
+ "' cannot be encoded using standard URL encoding.\n" +
"(URL encoding only supports 8-bit characters.)\n" +
"A space (+) will be substituted." );
encoded += "+";
} else {
encoded += "%";
encoded += HEX.charAt((charCode >> 4) & 0xF);
encoded += HEX.charAt(charCode & 0xF);
}
}
}

return encoded;
};


 


function decode(url) //function decode URL
{
// Replace + with ' '
// Replace %xx with equivalent character
// Put [ERROR] in output if %xx is invalid.
var HEXCHARS = "0123456789ABCDEFabcdef"; 
var encoded = url;
var plaintext = "";
var i = 0;
while (i < encoded.length) {
var ch = encoded.charAt(i);
if (ch == "+") {
plaintext += " ";
i++;
} else if (ch == "%") {
if (i < (encoded.length-2) 
&& HEXCHARS.indexOf(encoded.charAt(i+1)) != -1 
&& HEXCHARS.indexOf(encoded.charAt(i+2)) != -1 ) {
plaintext += unescape( encoded.substr(i,3) );
i += 3;
} else {
alert( 'Bad escape combination near ...' + encoded.substr(i) );
plaintext += "%[ERROR]";
i++;
}
} else {
plaintext += ch;
i++;
}
} // while

return plaintext;
};