Re: multiple domains using one cookie

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:59:19 +0200, Tobias Talltorp (tobias@talltorp.com) wrote: >Hello all. > >I want multiple domains to be able to read from one cookie, or set >one >cookie each for the different domains. > >Here is the case: >When the user logs in to my server, I want to set a cookie that has >the >value $name="tobias". He specifies which domains that can read this >cookie, >something like $domains="domain1.com;domain2.com;domain6.com". >Then these sites can read the $name and print it. > >The other way might be to set one cookie with the value >$name="tobias" for >domain1.com, one for domain2.com and one for domain6.com. >But the cookie _has_ to come from domain1.com, otherwise it will >only work >for mydomain.com, right? >In other words, I can´t set, edit or read a cookie for an other site? > >How would I go about doing this? right, you can't do it. the browser won't accept a cookie for a domain other than the one it's coming from, and it won't send a cookie for a domain other than the one that's being requested. a couple of ideas for a workaround would be: 1) you can set a cookie on domain1, redirect to a page on domain2 which sets another cookie, redirects to domain6 and sets another cookie and redirects back to domain1 (messy) 2) you can restructure your domains into subdomains like so: www1.domain.com www2.domain.com www3.domain.com these will all get and send cookies for domain 'domain.com'