Over the past 3 days I've been getting the "Disallowed Key Characters" error from CodeIgniter's Input class. I've found that this is resulting from CI checking for valid global cookie keys in the $_COOKIE array. The particular keys tripping the alert are below (where asianfanfics.com is the site I'm working on):
ebNewBandWidth__www_asianfanfics_com=277%3A1357053922099;expires=Wed,_01_Jan_2014_15:25:24_GMT;_path=/;_domain=_www_asianfanfics_com
ebPanelFrequency__www_asianfanfics_com=\"\";expires=Tue,_01_Jan_2013_15:43:39_GMT;_path=/;_domain=_www_asianfanfics_com
So if $_COOKIE[$key] = $value
, $key
is not passing CI's check and $value
is always empty. When inspecting that cookie on Chrome's cookie inspector, I see that it is set for the www subdomain and under expires, instead of a date, it says "session".
The only other question on SO relating to this is due to someone using the jQuery Tabs plugin which I'm not using.
Does anyone know what could be setting this cookie?