expire a cookie immediately?

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Published on 2009-10-28T08:45:50Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 3:22 UTC
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I want to remove a cookie I set. If I do this by giving it a expiration date sometime in the past it gets marked as "expires: at end of session". I've noticed that other sites manage to delete the cookie immediately somehow. For example when you logout here on stackoverflow the "user" cookie disappears right away. How?

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