Topic: subdomain independent cookies and unqual DNS

[Mike Bobbitt]

You can call it a bug or you can call it poor DNS habits... I run http://Army.ca, and noticed that when I turned on subdomain independent cookies, the cookies were not set correctly. That is, they were set for army.ca, but the cookie name (I.E. SMFcookie10) was actually blank when the cookie was set.

This showed up as me having to re-log in at every visit.

I know I should technically be using www.army.ca instead,  but it still seems buggy that the cookie name disappears in this case. (I'm planning on using other server names such as gallery.army.ca, so I'd like to use subdomain independent cookies if possible...)


Cheers

[Grudge]

I'm sure Unknown is the best guy to answer this once he returns from holiday. Just incase you don't get a useful response right now. I assume local cookies are off too?

[Mike Bobbitt]

Yep, forgot to mention, but local cookies are turned off. My board isn't live yet, so I'd be happy to tinker and test as needed.

[[Unknown]]

I can't promise coming from army.ca will work properly... it should, but I can see that having a problem.

However, I've never had any problems here - we use subdomain independent cookies, and this:

http://support.simplemachines.org/community/index.php

Should keep you logged in and everything.  It has always for me.

What browser are you using?  Do you have Mcafee Firewall, Norton Internet Security, or ZoneAlarm?  Anything like those?
(same questions for Grudge as you said he was having an issue too, but here.)

-[Unknown]

[Grudge]

I don't use any software firewalls but I do have to go through a router to get onto the internet (it's a shared connection in our house). I'm using IE 6.

[[Unknown]]

Can you try a different browser, such as Firefox which can be found here?

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why?

I hope it's not the router giving issues.  If you still have problems with Firefox, I can tell you how to get Firefox to tell you WHAT cookie is being set so you can debug it.

-[Unknown]

[Grudge]

Will do this tonight cheers.

EDIT: This also happens at work for me, again on IE 6, so I don't think it can be the router. Either way I'll test this out properly tonight.

[Mike Bobbitt]

I'm using firefox (also tested on IE). No funnies like ZoneAlarm to interfere with cookies. I can send the actual cookie created if it helps...

[[Unknown]]

Yes, that might.  It should be set for the domain .simplemachines.org here... and the same for you domain. (".army.ca".)

-[Unknown]

[Grudge]

I bumped the wrong thread yesterday. I PM'd you information about my cookies yesterday Unknown.

Cheers.
Grudge

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hmmm, now when I turn on subdomain cookies, nothing gets set! I'll keep tinkering and see if I can reproduce the original complaint (or maybe it was just too late at night). Will post what I find...

[Mike Bobbitt]

If I had to guess, I'd say that when your domain is army.ca, SMF cuts it down to a subdomain of .ca, which no respectable browser is going to allow.

[[Unknown]]

Try www.army.ca.

-[Unknown]

[Mike Bobbitt]

Yeah, using www.army.ca and subdomain cookies works just fine... So I could use forums.army.ca (for example) but it still seems to be incorrect behaviour for SMF to not set a cookie when I use army.ca... 

[[Unknown]]

I can't promise coming from army.ca will work properly... it should, but I can see that having a problem.

I didn't say it should have a problem, I said it might.

-[Unknown]