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Re: Skip Filter borked?
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Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:35:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.admin.general, Susan Hoover writes:
Ah, but do they really match?  In
<http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5939>, you (Todd) wrote:

[...]

"any server in the domain .lugnet.com" is not necessarily the same
as "the originating server", which is www.lugnet.com, correct?

Hmm, probably not, but I'm not sure how browsers interpret the "only
to the originating server" phrase...  A browser -could- (and I would
think should) remember that a ".foo.bar" cookie came from
"www.foo.bar" if it was going to place restrictions on the
originating server (which I think is a good thing).

I always thought the selection meant not to send cookies to sites
that didn't match the URL of the page being loaded (i.e., not
sending cookies when requesting off-site images for the page being
viewed) but what you suggest above seems like a good tip.  I'll have
to go read more about cookies before I can be sure.  And probably
some additional real-world testing.

Try this (basic info for users):
<http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19970226-2.html>

and this (info for web developers):
<http://help.netscape.com/kb/corporate/19960513-111.html>

and a spec:
<http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html>

Disclaimer: I've never created a web site that sent cookies.  :-)

--
Susan Hoover
Houston, TX



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(...) Hmm, probably not, but I'm not sure how browsers interpret the "only to the originating server" phrase... A browser -could- (and I would think should) remember that a ".foo.bar" cookie came from "www.foo.bar" if it was going to place (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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