>From my experience as long as their's something to the left of the only
period in the domain, IE will accept the cookie. But Netscape always
rejects it if there's not two periods. I believe this is in the spec to
prevent people from setting the cookie domain to .com
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: Lance Lavandowska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 1:29 PM
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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