this strikes me as either a browser bug or possibly a design flaw in the cookie specification.

It's neither. If anything, it's a bug in the way perlmonks is implemented. Apparently, the cookie sent is dependent on the server requested. It might be better to always send a cookie for the domain instead.

Note that if you are logged into perlmonks.org and a link takes you to www.perlmonks.org it will work just fine. It's only the other direction that breaks.

As far as the .com and .net domains... I'd be interested in hearing the reasoning behind why those TLDs don't just do a refresh/redirect to the .org domain.

That's a good question. I'll be interested in hearing the answer to that as well. I suspect it is an attempt to be friendly to clients that don't handle redirects transparently (or at all.) But, I think redirecting the other domains makes sense.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re: Re: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by sauoq
in thread Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by tilly

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