515520 - Cookie confirmation dialog should allow specifying where the wildcard should go in the cookie's domain

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Peep Chaintreuil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

I've learned from bug #336207 comment #4 that specifying "foo.com" when using the preferences pane to allow/block cookies for a site offers an implicit wildcard for all *.foo.com subdomains.

This feature should be accessible from the most commonly interacted with cookie allow/block mechanism: the pop-up confirmation dialog.

When the popup appears for say, foo.bar.2o7.net, I should be able to specify that I want to allow/block all cookies to *.2o7.net.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[BugMagnet]

Is there some reason that cookie management does not allow for wildcarding hosts or IP blocks?

I have literally dozens of blocks from the same domain that seems to be creating multiple hostsnames such as e-1kjwj3nh34h5nshet4.stats.esomniture.com

I'd really love to have just 1 entry such as *esomniture.com to block any and all cookies from whatever hosts that domain creates.