Closed Bug 279436 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Two cookies with same name for same domain should not be allowed

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: Cookies
Version:
1.7 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: rsoph, Assigned: darin.moz)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The browser will keep more than one cookies with the same name from the same
domain. Subsequent cookies with the same name should overwrite previous values
stored under that name.  

Reproducible: Always
Could you please post an example URL or testcase that demonstrates the bug? More
details are needed here for this to become a useful bug report.
Assignee: bugs → firefox
Component: Page Info → General
QA Contact: page-info → general
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
I am debugging an application and noticed more than one cookie for my domain
with the same name (but different values).  This should not be possible and is
likely the root cause for many of your "cookies don't work" bugs.
Summary: Two cookies with same name for same browser should not be allowed → Two cookies with same name for same domain should not be allowed
And how were you seeing this? By reading your cookies.txt file? Or with server
side script?
don't forget that cookies with different paths are different cookies (according
to the spec)
Assignee: firefox → darin
Component: General → Networking: Cookies
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → networking.cookies
Russell, could you please answer Gavin's question (while keeping in mind
Michiel's point)?
Version: 1.0 Branch → 1.7 Branch
From reporter via email:

"Looking at cookies in your Options dialog."

Russell, please post any additional information in the bug instead of emailing
me directly.
Russell, what is the information listed for those two cookies, exactly?  Please
include the "Path" part...
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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