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Re: Cookies sent to different ports?
From: Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:13:44 +0100
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:24:14PM -0500, CFW wrote:
- a user goes to a web server running at http://host:12345/, - host:12345 responds with a Set-Cookie: ... , PATH=/ - user/browser goes to http://host:54321/ (same host as above)
Someone (thanks Matt) looked in to this for me a little and it turns out that this is required by the RFC, cookies are tied to host and protocol (HTTP or HTTPS, though I think this is only sometime true through use of the "secure" cookie tag), not to port.
You could restrict the cookie to the port too. It's in the same RFC (RFC-2965 HTTP State Management Mechanism): [..] Port[="portlist"] OPTIONAL. The Port attribute restricts the port to which a cookie may be returned in a Cookie request header. Note that the syntax REQUIREs quotes around the OPTIONAL portlist even if there is only one portnum in portlist. [..] Martin Mačok IT Security Consultant
Current thread:
- Cookies sent to different ports? CFW (Dec 15)
- Re: Cookies sent to different ports? Martin Mačok (Dec 16)
- Re: Cookies sent to different ports? CFW (Dec 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Cookies sent to different ports? Michael Silk (Dec 16)
- Re: Cookies sent to different ports? Martin Mačok (Dec 16)