On 2001.12.27, Rob Mayoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +---------- On Dec 27, Dossy said:
> > Netscape has the option of "allow all cookies" or "allow cookies
> > that get sent back to the originating server."  So, if you just
> > set "allow all cookies" then send your browser a set-cookie where
> > domain= the domain you want to attack, setting cookies becomes
> > pretty trivial.
>
> That's not what accept-all-cookies means.  If an HTML page from server
> X contains an IMG tag with an SRC pointing at server Y, and server Y's
> response includes Set-Cookie, then Netscape will honor Y's Set-Cookie if
> accept-all-cookies is set and will not honor it if accept-only-cookies-
> that-get-sent-back-to-originating-server is set.

Interesting.  Still, setting a cookie in a browser so that it gets
sent to an arbitrary site is an easy exercise, as Wojciech pointed
out.

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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