216964 - Different Tabs should handle cookies from same site differently

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement)

Description

[Amlan Chatterjee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Different Tabs should handle cookies from same site (same url) differently. A
classic example of this is to be able to logon to the same site (that sets a
user specific cookie) as two different users simultaneously, from 2 tabs on the
same browser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Logon to a site that sets a cookie as one user
2. Open a new tab and try to logon to the same site (same url) as a different user
3. You will not be able to do it, as the cookie set by the first one will be
sent for second tab as well

Actual Results:  
A classic example of this is to be able to logon to the same site (that sets a
user specific cookie) as two different users simultaneously, from 2 tabs on the
same browser.

Expected Results:  
Should be able to set same cookies (same name) with different values from the
same site (same URL same path) on separate tabs

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

don't think this is feasible/desired.... at all

this is the entire point of cookies, to let you switch windows/tabs etc without
having to log on...

Comment 2

[Amlan Chatterjee]

This is feasible if we have 
a) a cookie manager instance per tab 
b) tabs are persistent
c) stored cookies are in reference to the tab it was set to

As far as desire is concerned, this can be made configurable
so the user can turn it on if reqd.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

argh, -> Cookies

its *technically* feasible, but it would increase footprint and code size, along
with introducing unfamiliar cookie behaviour to users

recommending WONTFIX

Comment 4

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

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

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

*** Bug 219566 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***