in reply to Sending Cookies from localhost with perl

Don't use domain? It's not required by RFC 2965 and the domain you supply is certainly not a valid one. As far as I know, localhost doesn't have a proper domain name.

Apache2::Cookie says to see also CGI::Cookie which says

Domain names must contain at least two periods to prevent attempts to match on top level domains like ".edu". If no domain is specified, then the browser will only return the cookie to servers on the host the cookie originated from.
I also noticed a comment in the CGI::Cookie source which says 
# IE requires the path and domain to be present for some reason.
$path   ||= "/";
# however, this breaks networks which use host tables without fully qu
+alified
# names, so we comment it out.
#    $domain = CGI::virtual_host()    unless defined $domain;

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So I'm guessing that the root of your problem is an IE bug and that using a space as a domain name seems to work. Please be aware that this is a very specific kludge to a very specific problem (IE and localhost). I'm no expert on cookies but my reading of the RFC makes me think the proper value to use is .local, but I haven't tried it.

Update: Fixed the RFC number.

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Re^2: Sending Cookies from localhost with perl
by martell (Hermit) on May 17, 2010 at 19:12 UTC

    I tried to use ".local" as in

    PerlSetVar MasonSessionCookieDomain ".local"

    But firefox didn't accept it. That was the thing that frustrated me most during my search. Whatever you tried "local", "", "localhost", "192.168.0.1", "127.0.0.1", ... It didn't work on my local machine. Only " " seems to work with firefox (using an ubuntu system).

    I didn't try it on a windows box or with other browsers.

    Kind regards

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      Don't use -domain. Firefox sees the space and just drops the domain altogether. If you look at the cookie details, you'll see that the domain is not set.

      Domain is used to allow cookies to be shared by more than one machine within one domain. E.G. www.example.org can set the example.org domain so media.example.org can use the same cookie. localhost doesn't have a valid domain so you'll have to settle for a host only cookie, which is what you will get from the non-standard -domain => " ".

      I wrongly guessed that you were using domain to get around the IE bug. Sorry about the windows slander ;^)

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        You right, omitting the domain works also. thx
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