Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 23 June 1997

Foil 72 Specification of a Cookie - II

From JavaScript Tutorial for Certificate Course UC Web applications Certificate -- Summer 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Scavo
1 DOMAIN defaults to domain of server where cookie set and suffix matching is performed
  • DOMAIN=npac.syr.edu matches all servers ending with these characters
2 PATH=/ is most general path and matches all paths; default is path of document that set cookie
  • Thus you must set PATH explicitly to / if you want cookie to be valid for a file stored in directory below that of setting document
3 SECURE if present requires a secure communication channel
in Table To:

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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