528896 - Cookie expiration date doesn't used if host contains an ip address and not an hostname.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Prism, defect)

Description

[contact]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Prism/1.0b2

When you set up a cookie, with an expiration date (other than end of session), and if the 'host' is filled by an ip address, the 'expires' field become 'end of session' and not the expiration date you've settled up.

I've add an alias to this ip address in my /etc/hosts, and then the cookie was ok.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build an app that send cookie with an expiration date (example : 7 days)
2. go o this app using her ip address
3. check the cookie content in prism
Actual Results:  
The cookie expiration date was incorrect : 'end of session' instead of the date.

Expected Results:  
The cookie should have to correct expiration date.

Comment 1

[contact]

I don't know why, but with the same version (Prism 1.0b2) on another computer with a fresh installation of Kubuntu 9.10, the bug isn't here.

I guess it was a distribution-specific problem.

Just in case : the problem was encountered on Linux i686 with an 'old'/upgraded version of Kubuntu 9.10, and when it disappeared on the fresh installation it was with Linux x86_64.

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Prism isn't maintained anymore. Mass closing of the bugs.