[ZCM] [ZC] 1524/ 4 Reject "cookies with paths other than / do not appear in REQUEST ?"

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Issue #1524 Update (Reject) "cookies with paths other than / do not appear in REQUEST ?"
 Status Rejected, Zope/bug medium
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= Reject - Entry #4 by tseaver on Oct 8, 2004 10:27 am

 Status: Pending => Rejected

The HTTP cookie spec (RFC 2109)[1] dictates that the path
attribute of a cookie be *only* the path portion of the
URL:

   Path   Defaults to the path of the request URL that generated the
          Set-Cookie response, up to, but not including, the
          right-most /.

Therefore, *don't* include the scheme or nethost in your path, and pay careful attention to the trailing slash.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2109/rfc2109
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= Comment - Entry #3 by shh on Oct 8, 2004 4:18 am

The cookie path is handled by the browser not by Zope (or *any* HTTP server for that matter).
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= Comment - Entry #2 by ajung on Oct 8, 2004 1:38 am

Works for me as expected.
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= Request - Entry #1 by Anonymous User on Oct 7, 2004 8:18 pm

When I use RESPONSE.setCookie(..., path='/'), REQUEST.cookies contains the cookie while browsing that site. 

But when I set path to something else - the site url, or the url of the page being browsed - REQUEST.cookies is always empty. Shouldn't it contain the cookie while browsing pages under the cookie's path ?

You can see this in action at http://zwiki.org/UserOptions . 
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