domain parameter in setcookie

[jordanwb]

I'm working on my own Site Content Manager at the moment on my local server. It's IP is 192.168.1.2 when I pass that in into the domain parameter of setcookie, do I need a dot (.) in front (.192.168.1.2) or will 192.168.1.2 work?

[corbin]

Hrmmm I've never used the domain parameter with IP addresses....

 

The domain that the cookie is available. To make the cookie available on all subdomains of example.com then you'd set it to '.example.com'. The . is not required but makes it compatible with more browsers. Setting it to www.example.com will make the cookie only available in the www subdomain. Refer to tail matching in the » spec for details.

 

So the only reason I can think of that you would need the . in front of 192.blah.blah would be if you had subdomains on your LAN IP (which isn't possible unless [ok it's not likely really, but oh well] x.x).

 

It might also be worth noting, that from the outside, cookies won't work since people from outside your LAN won't access 192.168.1.2.

[jordanwb]

So for it to work all I would need I would set the domain parameter to 192.168.1.2