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cookie problem with iframe and different domain

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May 3rd, 2005
Hello everyone, I have an ASP chat inside an IFRAME. The ASP file is hosted on a different domain than the main website.
When the user logs on by entering their name, the chat stores a cookie so the user can start posting messages. However since the cookie is stored using the main domain (not the iframe), the chat doesn't recognise it anymore and keeps asking to log on.

How can I get it to recognise the cookie, or to store it with the correct domain?

Your help is appreciated

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<%
'/// Get Nick Name
nick=request("nick")
xlaSBnick=request.cookies("xlaSBnick")"
if nick<>"" then
response.cookies("xlaSBnick")=nick
xlaSBnick=nick
end if
if xlaSBnick="" then
formproperties="action=bottomframe.asp onsubmit='return validatenick();'"
else
formproperties="action=receiveframe.asp target=xlaSBreceive onsubmit='return shout();'"
end if
%>
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Re: cookie problem with iframe and different domain

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Originally Posted by ortora View Post
Hello everyone, I have an ASP chat inside an IFRAME. The ASP file is hosted on a different domain than the main website.
When the user logs on by entering their name, the chat stores a cookie so the user can start posting messages. However since the cookie is stored using the main domain (not the iframe), the chat doesn't recognise it anymore and keeps asking to log on.

How can I get it to recognise the cookie, or to store it with the correct domain?

Your help is appreciated

Here is the coding used by the chat to recognise the cookie:


I'm having this same problem... I got around it temporarily by setting each user's browser to trust the domain. I hope there's a better solution though.
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Re: cookie problem with iframe and different domain

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Sep 14th, 2007
You can not using cookies. You should use javascript to send the information to the iframe
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Re: cookie problem with iframe and different domain

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Sep 14th, 2007
you can set the domain on a cookie as follows

Response.Cookies("CookieName").Domain = "www.mydomain.com"

and even a path of the cookie on that domain to make sure it can only be read by the path on that domain and not another

Response.Cookies("CookieName").Path = "/maindir/subdir/path"
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