131512 - Session cookies should stay with a single window and children

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Mellem]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    200231104

This will probably be too involved but anyhow...

Many online stores depend on a cookie to maintain state of their store. The
problem is if you're browsing in "cameras" in one area and "TVs" in another and
select an item in "cameras" and then select an item in "TVs" it will actually
open up another camera. [I'll have to look for an example; the last place was
turboprice.com but it's not answering.]

Anyhow, I believe that the session cookies will only work right if they don't
work across the entire browser, only within a certain window and all it's
children (and the children receive a COPY of the session cookies that are then
updated separately). This would allow multiple connections to the same site and
have different sessions.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to one of these poorly designed on-line stores.
2. Open a link to one category in a new window.
3. In the original window, go to a category and select an item.
4. In the second window, select an item.

Actual Results:  The last item will actually be from the first category.

Expected Results:  The correct item's information should have been loaded.

Comment 1

[Garth Wallace]

On the other hand, cross-window session cookies can be important to
well-designed sites. Maybe "current" should be an additional form of restricted
cookie (under the "limit maximum lifetime of cookies to..." pref and any
site-specific and/or privacy-policy-specific cookie lifetime restriction pref).

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

For me, the correct way to handle this RFE is as described in bug 117222.

Comment 3

[jlarsen]

dup of 117222

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117222 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

V/dupe.