[Zope] Setting the domain with setCookie and **kw?

[Trevor Toenjes]

To show I am trying.  ;)  I found this old post below that still leaves me
with some Q's.

How do you format setCookie to control the domain that is referenced?
example:  setCookie auto-sets the subfolder address,
www.domain.com/sub1/sub2
BUT I want to set the cookie for the root URL without the sub-domain (www).
example: .domain.com is what I want to write in the cookie to share across
sub-domains.

What is **kw? in  setCookie(name, value, **kw)
It is referenced many times in Appendix B: Zope Book.

Thanks for the help!
-Trevor


////old post
> Zope reference gives such a header for this method:
> setCookie(name, value, **kw),
> but the **kw argument is not described.  What it is?
>

setCookie is a convenience function to construct the response
header. As this rfc header can have some additional attributes,
they can be given to the setCookie() method too.

Useful options are:
- expires  this should be set to a date/time in the Future, where
           the cookie is to be expired (hence the name ;)
           The format is Wdy, DD-Mon-YYYY HH:MM:SS GMT,
           so you might want to use DateTime().strftime() here.
- path     At least if you set "expires" you should send a path
           (minimum /) from which the cookie should work. Otherwise
           it gets not stored for old Netscape versions and a few
           proxies (Novell Bordermanager[tm] is known to behave like this)
- domain   The domain for which the cookie has to be send for each
           request. This defaults to the exact hostname of the server.

- secure   you can specify this with secure='' to get the browser sending
           it only over ssl.

HTH
Tino Wildenhain