[TYPO3-dev] Is config key 'cookieDomain' worth a patch?

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> ==== WHAT I SUGGEST ====
> 
> 1) Either create a second cookieDomain parameter to be used for FE (or BE)
> 2) Better would be to add this configuration property to the domain
> record itself. This way it would fall back to current behaviour if not
> configured but would allow me to handle even more complex scenario.
> 
> 
> What is your point of view? TYPO3 4.3 is not yet out and thus it would
> still be time to do this.

My suggestion for typo3conf/localconf.php in such cases:

if (TYPO3_MODE == 'BE') {
	$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['cookieDomain'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
}
else {
	$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['cookieDomain'] = '.domain.tld';
}

-- 
Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 core team
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