Is it possible to set a cookie to an IP number instead of the usual www.company.com?

You might be able to set the cookie (that is, get some browser to accept and store it), but no browser that I know of will actually return it to you. Where they to do so, it would introduce a massive security hole.

Think about it for a moment. It's possible to set a cookie for ".example.com" that will be returned by a browser for visits to "example.com", "www.example.com", or "a.b.c.example.com". But what of ".1.1"? That would match sites all over the place.

In reply to Re: Cookie set to IP number? by dws
in thread Cookie set to IP number? by filmo

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