[Zope] Netscape 4, cookies and domains

[Chris Muldrow]

Exactly my question!!!!
I'm trying to set domain-wide cookies, and it works with .mydomain.com on
all browsers except for NS 4.

On 12/20/02 12:38 PM, "Jim Kutter" <zope-list@ebizq.net> wrote:

> 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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