Sam Varshavchik wrote at 6:31 PM (-0400) on 4/12/06:

>Try to set a cookie for www.cnn.com, and see how far you get.
>
>Browsers will reject cookies that a domain will try to set for a different 
>domain.
>
>But in this case, you are setting a cookie for your own domain.  The old 
>saying goes: you break it, you get to pick up the pieces.

Sure, that's true.  But my point was that a user-agent could be sending
anything at the web server and therefore it's the app's responsibility
to fail elegantly.  I suppose the implicit response is that the CGI
paramater overflow message is elegant enough.

-ben

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