163222 - www.sky.co.uk somehow sets a cookie for the entire .co.uk domain

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 8743

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Wade]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020810
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020810

www.sky.so.uk sets a cookie for the entire co.uk domain before redirecting to
www.sky.com.
IMSHO, sites shouldn't be able to set cookies for entire TLDs :-P

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.sky.co.uk
2. Open cookie manager
3. See new cookie set for .co.uk



Expected Results:  
What should mozilla have done instead? Rejected it perhaps.

Comment 1

[alanjstr]

Confirmed Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020816

Comment 2

[Kevin Chen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8743 ***

Comment 3

[Kevin Chen]

Also see bug 131509 for a bit of discussion... (bug 131509 was marked as a
duplicate of 8743).

Comment 4

[Stephen P. Morse]

Yes, bug 8743 is the correct dup.  You beat me to it.  So I'll verify.