You shouldn't be allowed to read cookies from another domain. That's why
people are scared of cookies to this day. There were bugs in older browsers
that made this possible.
I assume these have been patched up now though.
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmet McGovern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:37 PM
Subject: Help!!! Cooke Monster!!
> Is there a way to set up a cookie on one domain and read it from another
> domain? I have 2 servers, one is unix and the other is cf. I need to
> secure the cf server by only allowing access to it if a cookie has been
set
> by the linux server, only im having problems reading the cookie on the cf
> side. The linux servers domain would be content.beachin.net while the cf
> server is files.beachin.net
>
> right now im trying to meta set the cookie on the unix server
> (content.beachin.net)
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" Content= "beachfile=10";
> domain=".beachin.net">
>
> and check its existence on the cf server (files.beachin.net) with
>
> <cfif isdefined("cookie.beachfile")>
> blah blah blah
> </cfif>
>
> Am i doing something wrong? Or should i be doing this another way?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Emmet McGovern
> Systems Admin
> Byte Size Inc.
>
>
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