277235 - cookies set to "www" when no wildcard is there

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[backglancer]

I have my own website and I do not use the www before my name, i.e.
http://hostname.com and not http://www.hostname.com
Via PHP I set cookies (via sessions to be specific) and I noticed that my
sessions werent' working. After hours of debugging my own script I checked the
stored cookies and noticed that a cookie with my PHPSESSID was set to
www.hostname.com even though i have NEVER accessed that site with www. I have
checked it several times, under some different cicrumstances and it confirmed.
Same page works fine in IE (no browser-dependant code is EVER used)

in short:
a cookie that's supposed to be set to hostname.com is set to www.hostname.com

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Could you please create a cookie log as described here
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/cookies/cookie-log.html and attach it?

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

from reporter:
I do not use the whole mozilla, I just use Firefox, I tried setting those
variables in c:\prog\Mozilla Firefox\
my cookies.log was 0 length

--

Note: The file is always overwritten if you start a new FF session with logging
enabled! So open the command prompt, go to your FF directory, set the variables,
start firefox.exe from the prompt, delete your existing test cookies (see cookie
manager) and run your tests (which should set the cookies), close FF and
copy/save the logfile.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

IE treats cookies set for "www.whatever" and for "whatever" as identical. 
Sounds like a bug in your PHP code -- it's setting cookies for the wrong host.

Comment 4

[benc]

V/invalid.