[John Robinson]

I have to assume this is a brain-damaged browser issue. The saving of cookies takes place within the browser, and it is the browser that compares the cookie domain to the location URL, and rejects the cookie if the cookie domain doesn't match the location URL. It's something like MSIE 3.x that has this problem, so not too widespread. The other issue, the one with the double dots, I think is an MSIE 4.x or NS4.x issue, I believe they handle the situation completely different, and in an incompatible way.

I may end up having to cut off the people hanging on to ancient technology. We still get an occassional Netscape 2.x visitor. (I've seen 1.x too.) Just too many bugs an inconsistencies.

[smith288]

From all I can tell,

cookname=cookval; path=/; domain=.freerepublic.com

should work based on my research... You are saying that IE4 and NS4 dont deal well with that?