Except that not specifying a path and specifying a path of "/" should
be the same thing, according to the CGI.pm documentation, but they are
clearly not.

On 6/6/06, Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This sounds like a Safari bug, as amazing as that sounds. :-)

(Safari may be doing the right thing and everyone else has created a
looser de facto standard - this has been known to happen.)

Rob

On 6/6/06, Joel Gwynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't believe there could be a bug in CGI.pm, but I'm experiencing
> some strange behavior with cookie paths.  My brother was trying to log
> into my app using Safari, and he couldn't log in.  Other browsers are
> fine.  So I figured there was a cookie path problem; when I created
> the cookie I didn't set a path.  Once I gave it a path "/", he could
> log in just fine.  My question is this.  According to the
> documentation:
>
> -path points to a partial URL on the current server. The cookie will
> be returned to all URLs beginning with the specified path. If not
> specified, it defaults to '/', which returns the cookie to all pages
> at your site.
>
> The path is supposed to be set to "/" by default, but apparently not.
> What am I missing?
>
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