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[ic] Losing value of scratch variables!
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:11:32AM +0100, Frederic Steinfels wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Michael Stearne wrote:
>
> > I have some scratch variables that I set throughout the site. All
> > variables remain intact and set as long as the user doesn't go to the
> > secure area. Is there any way to share or set scratch variables
> > between the non-secure and secure area of the site?
> >
> > You can see the example at by going to http://em.feamerch.com/ which
> > redirects to www.feamerch.com and then sets a scratch variable. That
> > is retained when clicking around. But if you then click "Log In" at
> > the top of the page which sends you to the secure server, the scratch
> > variable is lost (you can tell by the image in the top left changing
> > to an R).
> >
> > Any ideas.... besides setting a cookie and putting CookieDomain
>
> CookieDomain DOES NOT WORK! All currently available webbrowsers disallow
> setting a cookie on a domain different than the one you are visiting right
> now. You can not set cookies for other domains!!!
huh?
CookieDomain .maine.com # for www.maine.com, ssl.maine.com,
Same CookieDomain would work for foo.bar.maine.com
--
Keeping session is what cookies are for. If you are jumping to a
secure server in a different domain, SOL.
>
> Do not use different domainnames for secure and insecure domains unless
> you want to apply a lot of patches to the interchange sourcecode.
>
> > .feamerch.com in catalog.cfg... that may not work because the scratch
> > variables are used setting [seti]
>
> Regards
>
> Frederic
>
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