in reply to Problem with Cookies on Netscape but Ok in IE

Off the cuff my hunch is the leading . you're supplying in the domain. You might want to check the Netscape developer docs, as they are the ones to have originally defined what a cookie is.

UPDATE A paper on cookies. Note the domain, not the cookie, has . # restrictions. Also note that that leading . would cause problems for people visting your site (assuming you have DNS entires for them) as jplan.com and not www.jplan.com and foo.jplan.com

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Re: Re: Problem with Cookies on Netscape but Ok in IE
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 16, 2002 at 07:39 UTC
    I tried without the .domain.com and it still does not work. the code for these to programs can be run: 
    http://jplan.com/cgi-bin/ctb/setCookie.pl

http://jplan.com/cgi-bin/ctb/getCookie.pl

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      Well that setCookie is still setting the domain with a preceding . You are also limiting access to the cookie to only setCookie by the path you are using. 
      HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:09:40 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3
Set-Cookie: user=dummy; domain=.jplan.com; path=/cgi-bin/ctb/setCookie
+.pl
Set-Cookie: password=hispassword; domain=.jplan.com; path=/cgi-bin/ctb
+/setCookie.pl
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

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      I wrote a client side program to write the cookie, and it succeeds, and my cgi get cookie works so the setCookie cgi program is still the problem. ummmm..........
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