Reading cookies under different protocols..

richie

If I set a cookie under

http://www.mysite.com/

Should a file under

https://www.mysite.com/

be able to read that cookie?

Notice the https protocol.

BTW, I just setup a script that successfully read the cookie under https. I just want to be sure that it's always going to work the same way.

Thanks.

MarkR

Yes it will. But be very careful, as

http://www.example.com/

and

http://example.com/

are NOT the same site.

A good idea is to set up a canonical site redirect, so that one of the two redirects to the other (same for any other aliases you have for your site).

So only have ONE host name that your web site works on. Not one DNS domain, just one HOST NAME. Have ALL others redirect immediately to the primary one and do not run web sites on them.

Mark

richie

Very well put.

I've put a 301 redirect on http://example.com/ to http://www.example.com/.

Thanks for your help.