simple cookie question

[spicymango]

I have a domain istraders.com. I set the cookie in the index.html file.

document.cookie = cookieName+"="+escape(cookieValue)
                 + ";expires="+expire.toGMTString();

As you see I do not define name of the domain in my cookie code.
So by default it sets the cookie under domain istraders.com.


Now suppose I get redirected to subdomain which is like

http://www.canada.istraders.com

Now from this domain can I read the cookie which I set it up for istraders.com?

 

[Diancecht]

Maybe this helps.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[spicymango]

Thanks a lot. I set the cookie with out domain name. If cookie get setup by hitting

http://www.istraders.com

Its is not readable by if I hit the site again by just typing istraders.com

Now he is saying in that article even if I set it up with .domain.ext

there it will have same issue

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Check out the "document.domain" property. It will allow you to get around this exact issue.

Hope this helps,
Dan



Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions

Dan's Page [blue]@[/blue] Code Couch:

http://www.codecouch.com/dan/

Code Couch Tech Snippets & Info:

http://www.codecouch.com/

 

[spicymango]

Dianceht the article that sent link of talks about

"If the cookie domain is set to ".domain.ext", it will not be accessible by a user
who types in the address without the

http://www before

the domain (i.e.

http://domain.ext).

"
That statemenmt I think is not correct. Because I tested
even though I put domain with "dot" like .mysite.com I can still access from both

http://www.mysite.com

and

http://mysite.com

document.cookie = cookieName+"="+escape(cookieValue)
+ ";expires="+expire.toGMTString() + ";path=/; DOMAIN=.mysite.com";

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You don't sound very happy that you've a solution to your problem...



Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions

Dan's Page [blue]@[/blue] Code Couch:

http://www.codecouch.com/dan/

Code Couch Tech Snippets & Info:

http://www.codecouch.com/

 

[spicymango]

No actually I am happy that it works for both, I was just curious why .mysite.com works for

http://mysite.com.

As the article and someone else also said it will not for and will work only for subdomain. like (

http://www.mysite.com

or

http://www.abc.mysite.com)

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If you're worried, then why not omit the '.'?



Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions

Dan's Page [blue]@[/blue] Code Couch:

http://www.codecouch.com/dan/

Code Couch Tech Snippets & Info:

http://www.codecouch.com/