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23.0.60; url-cookie-handle-set-cookie doesnt check for trusted urls

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Karol Hosiawa <hosiawak <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#1401: 23.0.60; url-cookie-handle-set-cookie doesnt check for trusted urls
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:16:45 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> (url-cookie-host-can-set-p "images.google.com" ".google.com")
>
> returns non-nil (because "com" is in url-cookie-two-dot-domains).
>
> And so does:
>
> (setq url-cookie-two-dot-domains "\\.nl\\'")
> (url-cookie-host-can-set-p "images.google.nl" ".google.nl")
>
> But having
>
> (url-cookie-host-can-set-p "foo.co.uk" ".co.uk")
>
> return non-nil would be bad.
>
> It cetainly seems like this problem to me:
>
> http://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/show.dml/267415

I think you're right.  Nobody proposed a solution, though.  :-)

Is there a list of known safe two-dot domains that we could use out
there somewhere?

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