186298 - Cookie does not work in application/xhtml+xml documents with JavaScript

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 111514

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Yutaka Furubayashi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021202
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021202

Assuming that I want to put/get cookies using document.cookie with Javascript.
If the given document is detected as text/html, it works correctly (making a
settings so as to ask before storing cookie, you can see what happen obviously).
On the other hand, the given document is detected as application/xhtml+xml, the
document.cookie does not work at all and I cannot put and/or get cookies.
This behavior is independent on the place of the document, that is, on the
webserver or in the local environment.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to "Preferences -> Privacy & Policies -> Cookies" and check "ask before
storing cookie."
2. go to the website of "http://www3.sppd.ne.jp/lena/test-cookie.xhtml or
.html"(writen in English)
3. Fill the forms and Press "Resister cookie"
3.

Actual Results:  
For "test-cookie.html"(text/html), you can see the dialogue for the confirmation.
On the other hand, for "test-cookie.xhtml"(application/xhtml+xml), nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
"document.cookie" in Javascript should work correctly, in both of HTML and XHTML
documents.

Comment 1

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

We use different code path for XML, I should investigate this.

Comment 2

[Tom Everingham]

confirming per testcase

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There is simply no document.cookie on the DOMDocument interface... that lives 
on DOMHTMLDocument.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111514 ***