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RichieWhite
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October 25, 2011
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cfcookie help

  • October 25, 2011
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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.

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    Owainnorth
    Owainnorth
    Inspiring
    October 25, 2011

    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.

      12Robots
      12Robots
      Participating Frequently
      October 25, 2011

      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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      RichieWhiteAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      October 25, 2011

      What will that do to my local testing? I'm using cookies for logins.

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