One of those cookie quirks
Posted by andrewmyhre on January 12, 2009
Today I discovered a weird thing that happens if you’re creating an authentication cookie and you’re setting the domain of the cookie.
Let’s say my site is http://mysite.somedomain.com and I set the domain of the cookie to “mysite.somedomain.com”. If I attempt to log in the cookie won’t be saved, meaning I can’t log in. Setting the cookie domain to “somedomain.com” on the other hand works fine. Is this weird behaviour or am I just cookie-ignorant?
