[Zope] Netscape 4, cookies and domains

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:56:07 +0100


Chris Muldrow writes:
 > We're using ZEO to feed two Zope clients and we're using Sessions with a
 > packless storage to keep track of session info. It works great except for
 > one problem related to Netscape 4 that I've seen referenced before in other
 > contexts. I've got browseridmanager set to feed cookies with a domain of
 > .mydomain.com. So www1.mydomain.com and www2.mydomain.com and
 > www.mydomain.com all work fine. But mydomain.com doesn't get a browser ID
 > set. If I take off the domain setting in the browser ID manager, it works
 > with Netscape 4 with mydomain.com but of course doesn't work on any of the
 > other domains and doesn't share domain info across the board. Is there any
 > workaround for this short of forcing them to a www.mydomain.com URL? Thanks!
Read the cookie specification (search via Google on "netscape.com").


Dieter