246777 - Cookie header not send after "Location: _some_url_" header

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Andrzej]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

After "Location: xxxxx" cookies are not sent (in some rare cases i guess).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://retman.pl/log/t.php
2. refresh to see that cookie have been set.
3. click redirect link
4. see that cookie have been lost

I couldn't reproduce it on *any* other server or even different domain on this
server.
Script works fine on Mozilla (Build ID 2004031616) and IE.

files contents:

t.php
----------------
<?
setcookie("test_cookie", "cookie_value", time()+3600, '/');
echo '$_COOKIE: <br>';
print_r($_COOKIE);
?>
<br><br><a href="redir.php">redirect</a>


poka.php
----------------
<?
echo '$_COOKIE: <br>';
print_r($_COOKIE);
?>

redir.php
----------------
<?  
  header("Location: http://www.retman.pl/poka.php");
?>
Actual Results:  
See that cookie was not sent via http request

Expected Results:  
Cookie should be send

Tested on two different machines: 
-Win98SE + Firefox 0.8
-Win98SE + Firefox 0.9 RC1

Comment 1

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

You redirect to a different domain, and the cookie doesn't have an explicit
domain set. So, (iirc), it wil be a host-conly cookie. Those cookies aren't send
to other domains.
If I go to http://www.retman.pl/log/t.php, it works.

Comment 2

[benc]

V/fixed.