On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:53:02 +0100, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > I am unclear on what basis Seamonkey determined "the effective domain". > For a number of sites under my control, I register a top-level domain > (e.g., example.org) and then create a number of different sites > under that domain (e.g., photos.example.org, poems.example.org). > These are completely different sites, yet Seamonkey regards "the > effective domain" as "example.org" whereas what I would imagine > is relevant to the visitor is that he/she knows that he/she is > on (e.g.,) poems.example.org and not on photos.example org. > > On what basis does Seamonkey determine "the effective domain" ?
We use a gecko service called nsIEffectiveTLDService. <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsIEffectiveTLDService> This uses the data from: <http://publicsuffix.org/> <http://publicsuffix.org/list/> The full list itself can be found here: <http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/dns/effective_tld_names.dat> Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
