Sharing cookies between two URLs, one forum instance.

[Phases]

I hope this can be easily done and someone is willing to help me.

I have two URLs, both pointing to the same forum instance. I have bought two licenses to accommodate this.

It works fine except that if you go from one to the other you have to log in repeatedly. I would like to not have to do this and cookies go across the board.

(ha, see what I did there? Across the board!)

Is this easily done? Any advice appreciated.
Thanks!

http://teatimeshow.com/forum
http://androiduncensored.com/forum

 

[Mike]

You can't share cookies between 2 entirely unrelated domains (without developing a complex system to support it, that is).

 

[Jake Bunce]

Browser cookies cannot cross between different domain names. You will have to login for each domain name. This is a limitation of cookies and would be a problem no matter what forum software you use.

 

[Phases]

Even if they reside on the same server? Using symlinks, etc?

 

[khurt]

Like the others said, cookies are set on a per domain basis. You will be unable to set the cookie for androiduncensored.com from teatimeshow.com.

However, you might be able to come up with something like this:

• user logs in at Site A
• site sets their cookie at Site A
• site redirects user to Site B
• site sets their cookie at Site B
• site redirects user back to site A

2 things to think about:

• You'd probably need to also log out of both sites when the user clicks "logout"
• Any information that is stored in the cookie after the user logs in could cause inconsistencies between the 2 domains

Unless it's critical, I wouldn't bother with it.

 

[Phases]

I guess I was hoping you could pass a session key back and forth rather than rely on a cookie stored on the users local machine.

...this really bums me out. Not critical, but a terrible annoyance as users come to the forum from one site - discover the second as intended - go check it out, then come back with the forum button in the navbar there.