On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:32:52 -0400, jesus X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
somehow managed to type:
>Adam Theo wrote:
>
>> 2: is it possible to set cookies that all websites can read?
>Not according the the "spec" to which the cookie features are written. No
>browser does it, it's designed so that this is NOT possible, which is why sites
>use "web bugs", those single transparent pixel images to that the server that
>serves it can set a cookie. Cookies can only be read by the domain that wrote
>them.
Incidentally, when the cookie spec was written, the different policies of
the various country-code TLDs were considered too be too hard to cater to.
As a result, it is possible to set a cookie that is sent back to all
servers in, say, .com.au
Charles Miller
