Re: Re: Cookie Problems on Localhost
| From: | trlists at clayst dot com | Date: | Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:15:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Cookie Problems on Localhost | ||
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On 23 Feb 2005 M. Sokolewicz wrote:
> both 'localhost' and any ip are not accepted as valid
> domain-identifiers in cookies (as per RFC). This simply means you're
> best off leaving them empty.
As far as I can tell this is incorrect. I think the relevant RFCs are
2109 and 2695. Both strongly discourage the use of IP addresses for
the cookie domain when a fully qualified name is available but both
also explicitly state that either domain name or IP is allowed. There
is no restriction stated on localhost.
I did find some online mentions that MSIE under WinXP will not store a
cookie for any domain pointing to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) regardless of
the name. But this appears to be a bug, not a feature.
--
Tom