[support] $cookie_domain not working

[Jamie Holly]

Just allowing third-party cookies won't do the trick. You actually need 
a module to handle setting the cross-domain cookies. You can try using 
Shared Sign-On. I've never tried it, but it might work out for you:

http://drupal.org/node/50418


Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net



John Fletcher wrote:
> > Since you are changing the tld (top level domain), simply changing 
> > $cookie_domain won't work. Browsers won't send out the cookie from one 
> > tld to another.
>
> Ahh... that sucks... but thanks for giving me the answer. Yeah previously in
> such cases I had people just log into each site separately but thought there
> might be a nice solution.
>
> Unfortunately the subdomain technique has other drawbacks that aren't worth
> it.
>
> I don't think I'm going to bother implementing this right now, but in
> theory... let's say you configured Firefox to "accept third-party cookies"
> (false by default) could you set a cookie for both domains whenever a person
> logs in to one of them? Would that solve the problem?
>  
> Fletch
>
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