Re: cookies on multiple ports

Gisle Aas (gisle@aas.no)
04 Nov 1999 13:42:11 +0100


David Barrowman <barrowma@netscape.com> writes:

> I am writing a simple client app with LWP which needs to access web
> servers on the the same domain but on different ports (80 and 443).  I
> want the same cookie set to be passed, regardless of which port I am
> accessing.  Is there a way to enable such behavior in the UserAgent
> object?

Yes, the HTTP::Cookies support this.  If the port attribute is not set
then the cookie will be sent to any port on the given host.  The port
attribute can also be a list of port numbers.

How do you collect your cookies?

Regards,
Gisle