It's because appspot.com was added to the public suffix list of domains that modern browsers should not allow cookies to be set for: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/dns/effective_tld_names.dat?raw=1
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone here know what changed in how Firefox handles cookies from the > appspot.com domain? > > I can't find anything in the release notes, although I'm not positive the > change happened in version 6 (it might have been in an earlier version that I > skipped). > > It appears that I cannot set a cookie with domain=.appspot.com > > When I do that, it doesn't show up in the list of cookies. I can set a > cookie in a sub-domain of .appspot.com (domain=foo.appspot.com) but not on > appspot.com itself. > > I understand why they would make it work this way, since appspot.com is > practically a TLD. But it was handy that I could do it, because it allowed > me to do some testing in development that I could not otherwise do. (I can > give details if anyone cares.) > > What I was hoping is to find a way to tell firefox not to treat .appspot.com > specially. > > Anyone know if that's possible? > > -Joshua > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
