Cookie Basics - Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch Administration Manual

F Cookie Domains
Overview
Purpose
This appendix discusses the importance of properly setting up your web browser to accept
cookies that allow the Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch My Teamwork server to operate.
Contents
This appendix covers the following topics.

Cookie basics

Cookie administration for ACS
Cookie mis-configuration
Cookie basics
Web browsers have built-in rules for receiving and sending cookies. When a browser
makes a request to a web server and the web server returns cookies with the response, the
browser will only accept a cookie if the domain associated with the cookie matches that of
the original request. Similarly, when a browser makes a subsequent request, it will only
send those cookies whose domain matches that of the target web server.
These rules are designed to ensure that information encoded in cookies is only "seen" by
the web server(s) that the originator of the cookie intended. These rules also ensure that
the cookie cannot be corrupted or imitated by another server. By default, the domain
associated with a cookie exactly matches that of the server that created it. However, it is
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