[Zope] Setting a session's domain

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pablo Ziliani" <pablo at decode.com.ar>
To: "Jonathan" <dev101 at magma.ca>; "Zope" <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Setting a session's domain


> Jonathan wrote:
> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm developing a site that has multiple subdomains (i.e.: 
>>> http://atlanta.website.com, http://nyc.website.com, etc.). Can 
>>> anybody point me how can I get the session to be shared across these 
>>> different subdomains? Unless someone can give me an opposite advise, 
>>> I think I need to specify a "domain" to the cookie which is trivial 
>>> for regular cookies but I just can't find how to do it with sessions 
>>> (notice that I am I'm using Zope's regular request.SESSION).
>>
>> How about creating subfolders, one for each subdomain, and then use 
>> URL rewriting to point to the required subfolder.  The top level 
>> folder would contain your login/authenication/session info which could 
>> be accessed via acquisition.
> 
> Hello Jonathan and thanks for your help,
> 
> Actually, the site is working. I have something close to what you said 
> with the difference that I am getting the rewritings go to the same 
> folder. Unfortunately this doesn't work because of the way that 
> session's cookies are served by default in Zope (including the 
> subdomain). In other words, no matter how you construct your internal 
> folder hierarchy, browsers won't submit a session cookie from a 
> subdomain to another. Cookies specification define a keyword to set the 
> domain from which the cookie should be submitted, but I don't know how 
> to set it for Zope's default session. Or if I'm completely missing 
> something.

try googling:   site:www.zope.org set cookie domain


Jonathan