Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread peter lin
if you want the cookies to be readable by all pages, you should set it to /. That's standard practice. Also, if you have multiple webserver with names like www1, www2, www3., you should also set the cookie to use yourbiz.com. peter John Baker wrote: It appears if you don't set a path

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread John Baker
On Monday 01 July 2002 12:59, peter lin wrote: if you want the cookies to be readable by all pages, you should set it to /. That's standard practice. Also, if you have multiple webserver with names like www1, www2, www3., you should also set the cookie to use yourbiz.com. I know this

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread peter lin
that's the problem with assumptions :) Actually I believe the W3C spec says the path will default to directory the pages resides in. So that page /hello/greeting.jsp will have /hello as the path. Only files under /hello can read the cookie. Atleast that's my understanding of how cookie path is

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread John Baker
On Monday 01 July 2002 13:16, peter lin wrote: that's the problem with assumptions :) Actually I believe the W3C spec says the path will default to directory the pages resides in. So that page /hello/greeting.jsp will have /hello as the path. Only files under /hello can read the cookie.

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread Tim Funk
http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html OR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt OR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt PATH=path Optional. The Path attribute specifies the subset of URLs to which this cookie applies. John Baker wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 13:16, peter lin

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread John Baker
On Monday 01 July 2002 13:29, Tim Funk wrote: http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html OR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt OR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt PATH=path Optional. The Path attribute specifies the subset of URLs to which this cookie applies. But as

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread peter lin
John Baker wrote: Well a reliable source tells me that there is no w3c spec for Cookies, and infact the concept was conjured by Netscape. There is an RFC spec for Cookies, but it's largely ignored. So as the useful browsers out there ignore Cookie requests without a path, it might be

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread John Baker
On Monday 01 July 2002 13:38, peter lin wrote: John Baker wrote: Well a reliable source tells me that there is no w3c spec for Cookies, and infact the concept was conjured by Netscape. There is an RFC spec for Cookies, but it's largely ignored. So as the useful browsers out there

RE: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread John Trollinger
is not working in the same manor that you did and can fix it. -Original Message- From: John Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:33 AM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: That Cookie thing On Monday 01 July 2002 13:29, Tim Funk wrote: http://wp.netscape.com

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread John Baker
for providing such a sensible warning. John -Original Message- From: John Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:33 AM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: That Cookie thing On Monday 01 July 2002 13:29, Tim Funk wrote: http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread Martin van den Bemt
]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:33 AM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: That Cookie thing On Monday 01 July 2002 13:29, Tim Funk wrote: http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html OR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt OR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread John Baker
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:33 AM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: That Cookie thing On Monday 01 July 2002 13:29, Tim Funk wrote: http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html OR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt

Re: That Cookie thing

2002-07-01 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, John Baker wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:20:31 +0100 From: John Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: That Cookie thing On Monday 01 July 2002 13:16, peter lin wrote