Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: Cookies and Domains

Apr 7, 2003, 4:34 AM

Wil

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Apr 7, 2003, 4:34 AM

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Cookies and Domains

Hi

I've got the following code to set a cookie:

Code:
	my $cookie_sesh_id = $query->cookie (            
		-name => 'sesh_id',            
		-value => $rand_id,            
		-expires => '+2M',            
		-path => '/',            
		-host => '.wyb2003.co.uk'      	 
	);

However, I want to know how to match both these domains:

Code:
wyb2003.co.uk 
www.wyb2003.co.uk

Currently, I have .wyb2003.co.uk which matches anyprefix.wyb2003.co.uk but not wyb2003.co.uk on it's own.

Thanks

- wil

Apr 7, 2003, 6:44 AM

Andy

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Apr 7, 2003, 6:44 AM

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Re: [Wil] Cookies and Domains In reply to

I remember reading somewhere that you can use commas to seperate the domains. That is most likely not true...as it wasn't one of the most accurate sites I have used....but its worth a try Smile

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Apr 7, 2003, 10:29 AM

hennagaijin

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Apr 7, 2003, 10:29 AM

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Re: [Wil] Cookies and Domains In reply to

I've been struggling with this as well:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=222094#222094

Your version should work on many browsers (IE 6 and Mozilla, by my testing), but not in some others (notably NS 4.7X). I spent a lot of time on this problem and ultimately came to the conclusion that no perfect cookie-based solution exists. If you read that post I linked to, you'll see that I've been trying to solve the problem with mod_rewrite, but I still haven't completely gotten it working.

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Apr 7, 2003, 2:29 PM

Wil

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Apr 7, 2003, 2:29 PM

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What others have suggested to me is that I set two cookies, one for wyb2003.co.uk and one for www.wyb2003.co.uk. Clumsy, but it works.

- wil

Apr 7, 2003, 2:30 PM

Wil

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Apr 7, 2003, 2:30 PM

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Hi Andy

I don't believe you can, or at least not in my version of Perl and CGI.pm (Perl 5.6).

Cheers

- wil