[wp-hackers] Site URL change 'bug'?

[Kristin]

I had the problem with adding over 100 images to one post with exhibit
hack... it was a pain in the butt to fix :(


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:24:31 -0400, Robert Deaton <false.hopes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, one solution to this is to not use the www. at all, and it is a
> very good idea on various levels, including the laziness of many now
> adays, and the tendancy to leave out the www. all together, and
> because it simply isn't the greatest idea (for more info on this, see
> the various no-www sites out there, i'm sure google knows about them).
> If you insist on keeping the www. then its a good idea to set www as a
> subdomain and have everything redirected to it with a rewrite rule,
> that way you still get the cookies no matter what.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:24:55 -0700, John Watson <johnw1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:14:54 +1000, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> > <lists at planetthoughtful.org> wrote:
> > > Hi John,
> > >
> > > Thank you for pointing me to this!
> > >
> > > I've been wondering, is there a point to dynamically deriving the cookie
> > > hash from the site url during normal operation?
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to derive the cookie hash at install, and store it in a
> > > table and simply use that regardless of the address being used to access the
> > > blog? Alternatively, simply generate a random 32 char string (ie
> > > md5(uniqid(rand(),1)) ) at time of install and use that in a similar way?
> >
> > The hash itself isn't the problem in this case.  The web browser is
> > trying to protect your privacy by only sending cookies back to the web
> > site they originated from.  The web browser simply won't send back any
> > cookies saved to www.planetthoughtful.com if you are on
> > planetthoughtful.com because www is more specific.  Also, for example,
> > cookies saved to planetthoughtful.org will not be sent to
> > planetthoughtful.com because the top level domain is different.  If
> > you want your cookie then you need to be browsing on the same url as
> > you were when the cookie was saved (in general).
> >
> > There is an exception where it is possible to save cookies at the
> > second-level if you are on a third-level domain.  For example, all
> > cookies at www.planetthoughtful.com could be saved at
> > planetthoughtful.com (instead of at the www) level.  This makes the
> > cookie available to both the www and the non-www domain.  This would
> > require a change in how wordpress saves the cookie.
> >
> > --
> > John
> > http://flagrantdisregard.com/
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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