99373 - Yahoo.com complains that the cookies it set weren't accepted (they where, but yahoo can't read them)

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Jesse Houwing]

When logging into groups.yahoo.com you get temporarily diverted to
login.yahoo.com, they set a cookie and you're on your way. This worked till
today. Now it doesn't...

There aren't any javascript error's or anything, and also no security warnings.
I checked the Cookie manager and there are a few cookies being set on the
"yahoo.com" domain (the whole domain, no subdomain or anything).

Reproduce: always
Steps, just log into Yahoo.

Just now when clicking Commit I noticed that bugzilla too doesn't remember my
cookies, asking me to login again. so it isn't just Yahoo.

Comment 1

[Jesse Houwing]

After reboot, removing cookies and allowing yahoo to set them anew and chesking
my cookies settings in preferences, still occurs. Tried yesterday's build, all
is fine.

Comment 2

[Jesse Houwing]

Cookies with a fully specified domain still work, seems to be something security
related...

Comment 3

[Jesse Houwing]

BTW the cookies I removed aren't set (and also no confirmation message) when the
domain name isn't fully specified. They are set when they are.

Comment 4

[Jesse Houwing]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99286 ***

Comment 5

[Jesse Houwing]

reopend based on comment in bug 99286

Comment 6

[Jesse Houwing]

I tried a lot of sites, and sites that supply a complete domain name

eg on my own sidebar (
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/tweakerssidebar.html ) 

the full "home.student.utwente.nl" domain is supplied. And the cookie get set
(and if you have dialogs turned on the cookie dialog asks for permission.

and with groups.yahoo.com only the top level and the company name are supplied (
.yahoo.com )

with the 10 sept. build it still asks to set this cookie and all is well, but
with the 12 sept build no questions, no cookies.

This can best be tested with the ask for every cookie turned on, as you can see
if anything is changed or not.

Comment 7

[Nick Atkins]

Just to add a little more info.  If you delete the mozilla.org/mozilla directory
in "program files" and reinstall, the first request to Yahoo seems to work fine.
 After closing the browser fully and restarting, trying Yahoo again, the problem
resurfaces.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The fix for bug 99286 did not make the Sep 12th builds.  Please retest with a
build from the 13th and see if the problem persists...

Comment 9

[Jesse Houwing]

Just tried the latest nightly, all seems well now...

Comment 10

[benc]

V/wfm.