note 92804 deleted from function.setcookie by googleguy

From: Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:15:31 +0000
Subject: note 92804 deleted from function.setcookie by googleguy
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Note Submitter: info at daniel-marschall dot de ---- Be careful when setting a domain value. The browsers have curious results (I tested with FireFox 3 only!). If session.cookie_domain is "", then your browser will probably make the cookie only available for your domain "www.example.com". That's secure since subdomains probably cannot access the cookie. If the session.cookie_domain has a value, for example "www.example.com", all browsers which are according to the RFC, will add a "." prefix to the domain. So "www.example.com" will be converted to ".www.example.com" by the browser. Now the cookie is not as secure as the cookie above since it is also accessable at subdomains. Strange...

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