read cookies in others library

[HelenHue]

Hi all,

I can create and read the cookies in one library as follow:
Create Cookies:
COMPRESS ‘Set-Cookie:’ ‘name=’ #USERID-A ##HTTP_NEWLINE_END INTO #STRING2
PERFORM W3HTTP #STRING2

Read Cookies:
PERFORM W3READ-ENVIRONMENT “HTTP_COOKIE” “S” #W3VALUE #W3MAX

Now, i have two web libraries(A and B) and i like to create the cookies in library A, and then redirect web site in library B and read the cookies in library B. The problem is the cookies read in library B blank. My question:

1. can cookies read in different libraries?
2. i cant find the cookies created in the server nor client. where the cookies store actually?

thanks.

[Eric_Schindler]

1st assumption is, that both urls for the different libraries are located at the same server

The cookie handing is the standard handling - this means the cookies are saved at client (browser) side.

You can setup a additional path parameter to change the behaviour of the browser delivering your cookies.

path=PATH
The path attribute is used to specify the subset of URLs in a domain for which the cookie is valid. If a cookie has already passed domain matching, then the pathname component of the URL is compared with the path attribute, and if there is a match, the cookie is considered valid and is sent along with the URL request. The path “/foo” would match “/foobar” and “/foo/bar.html”. The path “/” is the most general path.

If the path is not specified, it as assumed to be the same path as the document being described by the header which contains the cookie.

See also: http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

[HelenHue]

I had add the parameter path, and it work!!
Thank you very much, Eric!!