Mailing List Archive: AuthCookie: needs a path?

hi ken!

I have heard that IE requires a path to be set. CGI::Cookie has a comment
to that effect, and I remember running into that problem as well. I would
generate a warning if no path is set, since it could lead to mysterious
errors. However, I'm all in favor of following the specification.

Aaron

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at the specs for HTTP-cookies
> (http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html) and I noticed this:
>
> If the path is not specified, it as assumed to be the same path as the
> document being described by the header which contains the cookie.
>
> Currently Apache::AuthCookie requires a path to be set (specified with
> PerlSetVar), but is that necessary? I'm thinking of making it an optional
> attribute in the next release and thought I'd solicit some opinions here first.
>
> Thanks.
>
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