Re^2: Logged in status does not persist (perlmonks ) + no "third party" cookie)

FWIW, the same code runs on .com/.net/.org, each of them set the same cookie but for different domains, so Corion can be logged into .org as "Corion", and as "Co-Rion" into .net and "Anonymous Monk" into .com

What you probably experienced was someone linking to a different TLD using full url, instead of using a relative link ( [id://] )

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Re^3: Logged in status does not persist (perlmonks ) + no "third party" cookie) by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 30, 2012 at 13:53 UTC
This is true, but doesn't fit as a solution to the problem stated as whenever I hit "vote" or "I've checked all these" buttons ... because these buttons should submit to the same domain the original page was served from. Vote buttons or the "I've checked all these" shouldn't be visible for domains where you are not logged in. I don't have any experience with Opera so I don't know if deleting a cookie once blocks it for all time like with Firefox. I think that Perlmonks sends a cookie to whatever domain you've used to log in - maybe there is some tool for Opera to inspect what headers get received from the server when logging in and whether Opera actually considers the cookie to be valid for the current page... Update: The easiest explanation would be a wonky `localtime` setting on the machine. If the cookie is sent with a timeout that is (according to the machine) in the past, the browser would immediately discard the cookie.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Logged in status does not persist (perlmonks ) + no "third party" cookie)
by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 30, 2012 at 13:53 UTC

This is true, but doesn't fit as a solution to the problem stated as

whenever I hit "vote" or "I've checked all these" buttons

... because these buttons should submit to the same domain the original page was served from. Vote buttons or the "I've checked all these" shouldn't be visible for domains where you are not logged in.

I don't have any experience with Opera so I don't know if deleting a cookie once blocks it for all time like with Firefox. I think that Perlmonks sends a cookie to whatever domain you've used to log in - maybe there is some tool for Opera to inspect what headers get received from the server when logging in and whether Opera actually considers the cookie to be valid for the current page...

Update: The easiest explanation would be a wonky localtime setting on the machine. If the cookie is sent with a timeout that is (according to the machine) in the past, the browser would immediately discard the cookie.

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