[Zope] Netscape 4, cookies and domains

[Jim Kutter]

That brings up a good question.

Netscape's cookie docs (http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html)
state that
"Only hosts within the specified domain can set a cookie for a domain and
domains must have at least two (2) or three (3) periods in them to prevent
domains of the form: ".com", ".edu", and "va.us". "

At least two or three? Then how do we set domain wide cookies? Is that even
kosher? Or do we need to explicity set what subdomains/hosts we want to
offer those cookies to?

-jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@mitretek.org>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:13 PM
Subject: RE: [Zope] Netscape 4, cookies and domains


[ Dieter Maurer]
>
> Chris Muldrow writes:
>  > I read that before I sent my question! But I'm setting
> .mydomain.com as
>  > my domain name, and netscape is not recognizing that the
> cookie applies
>  > to http://mydomain.com
> There are restrictions on the domain specification length.
>
> Maybe, you domain does not contain enough "."s.
>
>

The domain name should not start with a "." AFAIK.

Cheers,

Tom P

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