[Mailman-Developers] cookie problem ?

[Gergely Madarasz]

On 21 Jul 1999, Harald Meland wrote:

> [Gergely Madarasz]
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > If I want to access the mailman pages thru a different url (like
> > http://somehost/cgi-bin/mailman/, the cgi-bin directory has a
> > symlink to mailman/cgi-bin) the cookie authentication is
> > problematic.
> 
> Yup -- we wouldn't want browsers to send out Mailman cookies unless
> they actually are getting a Mailman page.  Thus, the "path" setting of
> the Mailman-issued cookies are set to whatever the path part of
> mm_cfg.DEFAULT_URL is (i.e. normally "/mailman").

Ah, thanks, it actually works. Btw I thought it should be enough to set
the base url in the general options section. 

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