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Re: [http-state] Security considerations overview

Dan Witte <dwitte@mozilla.com> Thu, 04 March 2010 00:35 UTC

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:35:10 -0800
From: Dan Witte <dwitte@mozilla.com>
To: Mark Pauley <mpauley@apple.com>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] Security considerations overview
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----- "Mark Pauley" <mpauley@apple.com> wrote:

> It would appear that this is covered by 4.1.2.2
> 
> We (and many other browsers) do allow setting a cookie with domain
> .bar.example.com from .foo.example.com

Hmm, interesting. Firefox certainly doesn't do that; we (always) have required that the host domain be equal to, or a subdomain of, the 'domain' attribute; and that the 'domain' attribute must not be a TLD.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/cookie/src/nsCookieService.cpp#2142

Do you know which other browsers behave like this?

Regards,
Dan.

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