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in thread Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL?

Note that if you are logged into perlmonks.org and a link takes you to www.perlmonks.org it will work just fine.
No it doesn't. Not on Firebird ("Mozilla Lite") on Win32. I just tested it. While I'm at it: it doesn't work on the normal Mozilla, Netscape 7, Netscape 4.79.

However, it does seem to work on MSIE5.5. Uncle Bill seems to have done it his own way, once again.

BTW I think that it's possible to specify cookies that do work for both domains. But you have to specify it in a specific way... something to do with a leading dot. For details, see the cookies RFC

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL?
by sauoq (Abbot) on Nov 10, 2003 at 04:56 UTC
    No it doesn't.

    Mea culpa. I should know better than to test on just one (lame) platform before making a statement like that. It was, unfortunately, the only platform I had immediately available. Sigh.

    Uncle Bill seems to have done it his own way, once again.

    I agree that the behavior seems to be broken and I'm anything but a defender of the evil empire, but I bet Hanlon's Razor applies in this case. It looks like it may have originated with a poorly chosen example in the original Netscape cookie spec. The example given is:

    A domain attribute of "acme.com" would match host names "anvil.acme.com" as well as "shipping.crate.acme.com".
    That example is not valid, however, according to the spec it appears in. The very next paragraph begins:
    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".
    And that indicates that "acme.com" is not a valid cookie domain attribute.

    -sauoq
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