> I think this would be easy but seems not.  We have a main site at 
> www.oursite.com and then we have 2 subdomains.  We'll call them:  
> second.oursite.com and third.oursite.com.
>
> A person visits our main site at www.oursite.com and we set these two cookies:
>
> <cfcookie name="TestWWW" value="just_testing" expires="never">
> <cfcookie name="userid" value="#verifiedID#" expires="never" 
> domain=".oursite.com">
>
> And then the user goes to one of the subdomains - second.oursite.com.
>
> How do I remove (expire) that TestWWW cookie from the subdomain login page?  
> From the login page of the subdomain second.oursite.com:
>
>     <cfif IsDefined("cookie.TestWWW")> does not return as True even though I 
> see that it does exist.
>
> In Firebug I see that the TestWWW cookie domain appears as:  www.oursite.com
> and, the userid cookie is:  .oursite.com
>
> Shouldn't I be able to remove that TestWWW cookie since the user now at 
> second.oursite.com?

The browser won't send that cookie to second.oursite.com if it
received a host-specific cookie from www.oursite.com. The only place
you can set that cookie is www.oursite.com.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
http://training.figleaf.com/

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