Cookies off and Safari/Chrome on XP

[wollombi-wombat]

Hi
I have a couple of questions which I hope someone may be able to comment on:
1. Is there a test that can be done to ensure that the user has cookies enabled ? On IE and FF the form page is reloaded when the form is submitted regardless of the form field entries.
2. Is it my PC or is this expected behaviour ? I am testing on my localhost (WinXP/Apache/PHP/etc) IE and FF work fine as expected. However, on both Google Chrome (1.0.154.53) and Apple Safari(3.1.2) when I submit the form the home page is displayed regardless of whether I enter data into the form or not.
Thanks.

[Ray Borduin]

1) set a cookie and try to retrieve it... if it is blank cookies are turned off. This test comes with cookies toolkit as an applyable behavior.

2) It should be consistant, so inconsistancy is not expected.

[wollombi-wombat]

1) set a cookie and try to retrieve it... if it is blank cookies are turned off. This test comes with cookies toolkit as an applyable behavior.

2) It should be consistant, so inconsistancy is not expected.
Ray - thanks for your reply.
1. I turned off cookie in the browser settings. When I submitted the form the form page was re-loaded without any indication to the user that there was a problem. I dont beelieve this is acceptable behaviour. Are you suggesting I should purchase another product just to do what I would expect should be catered for out of the box by the Validation tool jigger ??
2. Sorrym, but your reply was not very helpful to me. Has anyone else observed this behaviour with the webkit browsers ? Is this a bug somehow ?