Frames and cookies in IE

[jonhyland]

I've been having a problem retrieving a cookie set in a frame.

The way the page works, I have a frameset covering the entire viewable
area. The outer frame is from one domain, the inner frame is another
(don't bother asking why.. I just need to).

Lets say the outer frame loads "http://www.domain-A.com/whatever.aspx",
and the inner frame loads "http://www.domain-B.com/another.aspx".

All click navigation occurs in the inner frame, loading content from
domain-B. I set a cookie in the inner frame (domain-B) and retrieve it
again in the inner frame (domain-B) on the next page request. Domain-A
in never involved in the cookie process.

Now in Firefox I can get the cookie just fine. In IE I cannot. This
doesn't make sense. Now I know a cookie can't cross a domain boundry,
but in this case it shouldn't be. Domain-B is the one both setting and
retrieving the cookie.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks in advance!

[JiangZemin]

Hi,
pls see this thread re: P3P and IE and cookies from diffrent domains:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...18a69f68cf5234

just guessing, IE6 may still be blocking the cookie, treating it as a
third-party cookie, even though all the hott cookie action is happening
within the same domain, because the parent frame is still in a different
domain?

HTH,
Premier JiangZemin

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I've been having a problem retrieving a cookie set in a frame.

The way the page works, I have a frameset covering the entire viewable
area. The outer frame is from one domain, the inner frame is another
(don't bother asking why.. I just need to).

Lets say the outer frame loads "http://www.domain-A.com/whatever.aspx",
and the inner frame loads "http://www.domain-B.com/another.aspx".

All click navigation occurs in the inner frame, loading content from
domain-B. I set a cookie in the inner frame (domain-B) and retrieve it
again in the inner frame (domain-B) on the next page request. Domain-A
in never involved in the cookie process.

Now in Firefox I can get the cookie just fine. In IE I cannot. This
doesn't make sense. Now I know a cookie can't cross a domain boundry,
but in this case it shouldn't be. Domain-B is the one both setting and
retrieving the cookie.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks in advance!

[jonhyland]

Awesome, that did the trick.

[jonhyland]

Awesome, that did the trick.