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Marcel_Derksen_
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Mar 01, 2006

Single domain and multiple cookies

A customer is having difficulties with the large amount of   cookies that are presented back to the client. The number of returned cookies for a single site may exceed the RFC standard for this and...
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Marcel_Derksen_
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Mar 03, 2006
The reason why they want this construction is that multiple application are seated behind one url. Every application has its own cookie and need to be persistance on that cookie. The application number will exceed the 20 and therefore more than 20 cookies can be stored in one session. Since the RFC only states that a client need to be able to store 20 cookies we are looking for a way to present one cookie to the client and preserve the cookies from the server.