[Zope] Netscape 4, cookies and domains

Chris Muldrow cmuldrow@fredericksburg.com
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:46:48 -0500


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
On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 04:56 PM, Dieter Maurer wrote:

> 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
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