cookies

What’s the best way to rewrite traffic from domainA.com/foo to domainB.com/bar while properly rewriting cookies and redirects?

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We have a number of sites that have blogs, like domainA.com/blog domainB.com/blog and we host the blogs on wordpress multi user: our-separate-wordpress-site.com/domaina_blog our-separate-wordpress-site.com/domainb_blog for SEO reasons we really, really want domainA.com/blog to be the blog url, not the other path. But we don’t see any examples where this is done, because we need not to … Read more

Why can’t Windows Server 2008 create cookies?

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Scenario: I have a web application (SnapshotServer) which uses a WebBrowser control to take a snapshot images of a web page. I use a WebBrowser control within SnapshotServer to navigate to a entry page of a secure web application (ImageHost) and then redirects me to my required page. The ImageHost application is protected by FormsAuthentication, … Read more

curl cookie and cookiejar trouble

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I’ve got a script that curls a site using a specific cookie value in a cookie file. When I run this on my local system, the server returns the same value to my cookie jar, as per my expectations. When I run this same script from another physical host, I get the exact same expected … Read more

Google Analytics setting cookies on static content despite being on entirely separate domain

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I recently decided to comply with the YSlow recommendation that static content is hosted on a cookieless domain. As I already use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my website—on which Google Analytics sets a few cookies—that meant I had to move the CNAME URL for the CDN serving the static files from … Read more

.htaccess RewriteRule with cookies not working

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The Joomla CMS Platform has an /administratotr/ folder which cannot be renamed. I’d like to secure it by requiring a custom url parameter to access it – I.E. /administrator/index.php?token=1149785380. After accessing this url, an html session cookie should be used to allow access for the duration of their browser session. Any thoughts what could be … Read more

Reverse Proxy a Sub-directory to a Sub-directory with Apache

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I understand proxies in concept (though have never set one up). I’m attempting to proxy Drupal, but I’m fairly sure that my problem is not related to Drupal. As I have been trying to determine the magic ingredient to get this working since this morning, I’ll get right down to it: Environment I have two … Read more

What can cause cookies to arrive empty to the server?

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We experience an issue where in IIS advanced logs we see that the requests arrive with SOME of the cookie values missing. Of course the values are missing in the application layer as well. This is from various IPs and from various devices. The machines are EC2s behind AWS load balancer. Can the load balancer … Read more