[ic] Losing value of scratch variables!

Fri Jan 25 08:19:00 2002

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 

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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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