It's early so I may not have understood the question properly but maybe this might help :)
IE blocks 3rd party cookies (AFAIK firefox doesn't) but IE can read 3rd party cookies if the site that set the cookie has a P3P Compact Policy (which is a custom header sent by IIS / Apache). See below for more info. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/6184.htm Some info on 3rd party cookie reading http://www.west-wind.com/wiki/wc.dll?wc~howtomakewwwcp3pcompactpolicycompatible ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Velez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 4:27 AM Subject: Re: 3rd Party Cookie Reading Thanks. Basically I want to set a cookie on 1 site ... but then read the same cookie on a different site. Maybe its not exactly 3rd party by def. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:47 PM Subject: Re: 3rd Party Cookie Reading > joe velez wrote: > > > > I would like to be able to have a script run using an embed tag or iframe, etc that can read cookies from another site. > > > > Lets say SITE_A sets a cookie "test" with value "thevalue". > > From SITE_B I would like to read the cookie 'test' and know that the value is "thevalue". > > > > How can this be accomplished? Can it? > > If you set the domain for the cookie to the domain for site B, it can be > read on site B. Of course, then it can't be read on Site A so maybe > that's not what you're looking for. And some security software blocks > "third perty cookies" too. > > Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238486 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
