Thanks for the reference.  I'll go over to stackoverflow and see whether anyone 
there knows of a work-around to whitelist an "effective TLD"...

On Aug 18, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Jon McAlister wrote:

> It's because appspot.com was added to the public suffix list of
> domains that modern browsers should not allow cookies to be set for:
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/dns/effective_tld_names.dat?raw=1
> 
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> 
> wrote:
>> Does anyone here know what changed in how Firefox handles cookies from the 
>> appspot.com domain?
>> 
>> I can't find anything in the release notes, although I'm not positive the 
>> change happened in version 6 (it might have been in an earlier version that 
>> I skipped).
>> 
>> It appears that I cannot set a cookie with domain=.appspot.com
>> 
>> When I do that, it doesn't show up in the list of cookies.  I can set a 
>> cookie in a sub-domain of .appspot.com (domain=foo.appspot.com) but not on 
>> appspot.com itself.
>> 
>> I understand why they would make it work this way, since appspot.com is 
>> practically a TLD.  But it was handy that I could do it, because it allowed 
>> me to do some testing in development that I could not otherwise do.  (I can 
>> give details if anyone cares.)
>> 
>> What I was hoping is to find a way to tell firefox not to treat .appspot.com 
>> specially.
>> 
>> Anyone know if that's possible?
>> 
>> -Joshua
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