Forum: Community Center


Subject: Site bug? Regarding session data and user info.

Questor opened this issue on Jul 29, 2004 ยท 17 posts


spinner posted Wed, 04 August 2004 at 6:32 PM

Attached Link: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2109.html

Would help if the cookies were legal to begin with. When I access Rendo or RDNA, which is hosted with Bondware, my browser, Opera can tell me the following:

"The server tried to set an illegal cookie. the combination of the server's hostname and the domain attribute for this cookie is not acceptable, and it has therefore been rejected.

You may want to ask the webmaster to set legal cookies

Address: http://www.runtimedna.com

Sess_key=1221221221 domain=.com; path=/
"

Sessionkey numbers changed by me.

The W3C doesn't work on or with cookies, but the IETF does, and IIRC, it's RFC2109 you'll want if you want to look up the -original- cookie specification.

This was an issue as far back as two years - I remember sending a friend a link and he had a field day with changing my settings to a major eyesore pink.

~S (edit - text fell out because I used a <

Message edited on: 08/04/2004 18:33