As a technique to avoid profiling and other general weirdness many browsers have an option to only accept cookies from the webpage's server.

In banner program I'm sending the standard "domain=.myhost.com". This is fine and dandy and the script runs just fine as long as the browser is requesting pages of the form http://www.myhost.com/webpage.html

If the browser requests a page such as http://myhost.com/webpage.html and the "accept cookies only from server" option is activated then no cookie is set.

While only 5% of my traffic is of the type http://myhost.com it is preferred to have a solution which will set cookies for those requests as well.

Has anyone solved this problem?

Thanks in advance
Claude

p.s. I realize that this is not strictly speaking a Perl question. But it's been my experience that perl monks have looked deeper into these issues than your standard webmonkey. So I was hoping someone might have found an answer. And, since whatever the solution is it will be implemented in my Perl script I'm hoping this might be a good forum for the question.

In reply to Cookies and 'accept only from server' by Xxaxx

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