Microsoft opens its own social network

Re:Microsoft opens its own social network by simonw on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @12:20PM (#4877264)

so.cl is a short enough domain that some browsers might forbid it from setting cookies, since it's the same length as .co.uk (and letting sites set cookies for the whole .co.uk space would be a massive privacy violation).

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Re:Microsoft opens its own social network by WizKid on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @12:25PM (#4877297)

I thought browsers used http://publicsuffix.org/ and not length of domain names to do that.

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Re:Microsoft opens its own social network by simonw on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @04:14PM (#4878626)

Each browser has their own way of handling this - public suffix is Mozilla's solution but I don't know if any if the other browsers are using it directly (I'd be surprised if IE didn't have their own approach).

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Re:Microsoft opens its own social network by nwh on Thursday December 06, 2012 @04:03AM (#4880956)

While I see the point (and some TLD do have A records), I've never had issues setting cookies from two letter second level domains. At least with modem browsers that doesn't seem to be an issue.

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