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RichieWhite
RichieWhite
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cfcookie help

Oct 25, 2011 9:00 AM

If I set a cookie from www.mydomain.com and set a cookie with the same name at mydomain.com - it will show as 2 different cookies (one for each site).

 

How can I let coldfusion know those are the same locations and not 2 different cookies? As it is now, my site works if they use the www. but doesn't work without the www.

 

 

Thanks for your help.

679 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: insuractive, Oct 27, 2011 10:42 AM
 
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  • Owain North
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    1. Owain North,
    Oct 25, 2011 9:32 AM   in reply to RichieWhite
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    You need to use the DOMAIN attribute of the CFCOOKIE tag to set the domain you want to set the cookie for - make sure it's always set for mydomain.com regardless of the URL they're browsing to and it'll be available at all times.

     

    You might want to consider just using a rewrite engine to redirect people from the non-www site whenever they browse it if it's causing a problem.

     
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  • 12Robots
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    2. 12Robots,
    Oct 25, 2011 10:00 AM   in reply to Owain North
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    Actually, to do this properly you need to set the cookie with domain=".mydomain.com". Notice the dot (.) at the beginning of the value. This tells the browser to use that cookie for the domain and every host/subdomain of that domain.

     

    Jason

     
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  • RichieWhite
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    3. RichieWhite,
    Oct 25, 2011 2:33 PM   in reply to 12Robots
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    What will that do to my local testing? I'm using cookies for logins.

     
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  • 12Robots
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    4. 12Robots,
    Oct 25, 2011 3:12 PM   in reply to RichieWhite
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    If your local testing domain is local.mydomain.com then it will work fine. If your local testing is some other domain (like localhost) then it will not work. 

     

    I recommend trying to make your local domain something like local.mydomain.com. It's quite easy t do if you are using Apache or IIS.

     

    Jason

     
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  • insuractive
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    5. insuractive,
    Oct 27, 2011 10:42 AM   in reply to 12Robots
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    Otherwise, you can always resort to creating an environmental-aware application variable to store the domain string based on what environment (local, production) the code is executing in.

     
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