How to enable cookie in the server

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  >>I am trying setup the Apache 2.0.40 on the RedHat 10. I can't seem to
  >>store the cookie. I checked all the environment variables on the server
  >>from the browser, HTTP_COOKIE is not listed. The codes for listing the
  >>environment are placed after set-cookie in the perl CGI scripts.
  >>The cookie is enabled in the testing browsers. How do I enable the
  >>COOKIE? don't see any entries relating to COOKIE in httpd.conf or
  >>any other .conf's.
 >
 > First time to see a freshly written cookie been sent _back_ to the server is
 > in the next requests.
 > Normally, it is your script -not Apache- that has to write the cookie to the
 > browser. That script might put the wrong server or path in it, causing the
 > browser to ignore or not return your cookie ...
 >
 > HansH


Thanks. It turns out that the domain I used, from truncating the part
before the first ., is not working as the domain of the web server. I
removed the domain field in the set-cookie, and it worked fine.

Now, how do you determine a domain then?

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 > HansH wrote:
 > Thanks. It turns out that the domain I used, from truncating the part
 > before the first ., is not working as the domain of the web server. I
 > removed the domain field in the set-cookie, and it worked fine.
 >
 > Now, how do you determine a domain then?
IOW have your cookie returned to any server in the domain 'foo.bar' use
'Set_cookie: ... domain=.foo.bar ...'

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt?number=2109" target="_blank">http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt?number=2109</a>
4.2.2 Set-Cookie Syntax
" Domain=domain
Optional. The Domain attribute specifies the domain for which the
cookie is valid. An explicitly specified domain must always start
with a dot.

You hardly ever have to worry about this, most script-engines use
'server.foo.bar' by default.

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