Make sure the domain has at least two dots or Netscape will refuse it. If
you use .fgic.com, it will probably work more reliably. But your correct,
it will not return them to www.bond-insurance.com unless you set another
cookie with .bond-insurance.com as the path.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: Boemio, Neil (CAP, FGI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: How can I retrieve a cookie from another domain?
> The cookies ARE always set with the domain as fgic.com. The problem is
that
> when someone visits www.bond-insurance.com, the browser sends the cookies
> for THIS domain in the request object. But there are no cookies under
> www.bond-insurance.com.
>
> What I've finally come up with is to use an index.jsp file with the
> following:
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0;URL=http://<%=
request.getServerName()
> %>/index.html">
>
> So index.html is my real homepage and I just configure Netscape to use
> index.jsp as the default document before index.html so now everyone is
> redirected to the proper domain.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Pratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How can I retrieve a cookie from another domain?
>
>
> If www.bond-insurance.com and www.financial-guaranty.com don't actually
need
> to access the data themselves, they can create a cookie with the domain
set
> to .fgic.com and www.fgic.com should be able to retrieve it.
> (*Chris*)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Boemio, Neil (CAP, FGI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 5:50 AM
> Subject: Re: How can I retrieve a cookie from another domain?
>
>
> > Unfortunately they are separate. Example www.bond-insurance.com and
> > www.financial-guaranty.com both go to www.fgic.com. So if a user first
> goes
> > to www.bond-insurance.com they will be given a client ID in a cookie.
But
> > now if they go to www.fgic.com, the servlet will not see the cookie and
> > think they've never been here before and it will give them another ID.
Is
> > there a better way to do this without forcing a user through a login?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Pratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 11:10 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: How can I retrieve a cookie from another domain?
> >
> >
> > That depends on whether those are actually xxx.mydomain.com,
> > yyy.mydomain.com and aaa.mydomain.com. If so, you can just set the
domain
> > of the cookie to .mydomain.com and it will get returned to all three
> > servers.
> > (*Chris*)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Boemio, Neil (CAP, FGI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:12 PM
> > Subject: How can I retrieve a cookie from another domain?
> >
> >
> > > If I have xxx.com and yyy.com both going to aaa.com, how can I
retrieve
> a
> > > cookie for aaa.com when any of these are visited.
> > >
> > > So when someone visits xxx.com, I want to be able to retrieve it from
> > under
> > > aaa.com because that's where my servlet put it since I use
> > > request.getServerName() when setting the cookie.
> > >
> > > If I use request.getCookies(), it tries to get it from where the user
> > > visited .... example xxx.com or yyy.com .... but it's not there. It
> will
> > > always be under aaa.com.
> > >
> > >
> > > Neil
> > >
> > >
> >
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