Posted by Jason Wong on 03/19/05 17:41

On Friday 18 March 2005 10:32, Brian Dunning wrote:
> > I suspect it's
> > for sub-domains of sites you administer and not completely different
> > domains altogether.
>
> If this is true, and it's not possible for a site to set a cookie for a
> completely different domain, then why do browsers have security options
> to allow or prevent this specific action?

When you display a webpage it very often pulls in a load of crap from
other websites (eg banner ads). These other websites are able set their
own cookies (for their particular domains). The browser prefs are for
preventing these 3rd party websites from setting these 3rd party cookies.

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