You may want to go with the more flexible .fgic.com in your cookie domain in
case you need to have multiple services coming from the same web server.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: Boemio, Neil (CAP, FGI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: How can I retrieve a cookie from another domain?
> I'm actually using www.fgic.com .... I just used short hand in the e-mail
> when someone else started to use shorthand :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Lavandowska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 4:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How can I retrieve a cookie from another domain?
>
>
> are you setting the domain to "fgic.com" or ".fgic.com" ? Notice the
> period before fgic in the second version. I know from the spec that at
> least two periods are required - what it does if you only send one, I
> don't know.
>
> Lance Lavandowska
> http://www.AgDomain.Com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boemio, Neil (CAP, FGI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 2:13 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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