Re: Accomodating Netscape-style cookies?

Kartik Subbarao (subbarao@computer.org)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:36:54 -0500


Gisle Aas wrote:

> Kartik Subbarao <subbarao@computer.org> writes:
>
>  A domain attribute of "acme.com"
> > would match host names "anvil.acme.com" as well as
> > "shipping.crate.acme.com".
> > ---
>
> But hopefully Netscape does not send the cookie to www.pacme.com as
> well??
>
> Can you verify that this does not happen with your patch then I will
> apply it.

I can't think of a simple way to simulate this -- any ideas? I was thinking of
hand-editing the cookies file, but that wouldn't truly test whether Netscape
would have set the cookie in the first place.

    -Kartik