[support] Cookies and SSL

[Earnie Boyd]

Don wrote:
> I've recently updated to the latest version of Drupal 6, and I'm having 
> a terrible time with session info getting lost when switching to ssl for 
> checkout.
> I have set $cookie_domain to .example.com and $base_url to 
> http://www.example.com.
> when I go to checkout at http, I have a full cart. When I go to checkout 
> at https, I have an empty cart. It just looks like the cookies looked 
> for are different.
> 
> In both cases, the only difference in the url is 'http' and 'https', 
> there's no domain change.
> 
> is there anything else I can check for?

No, that is the difference.  The two are treated differently.  See
http://drupal.org/https-information for help.

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