Internet Explorer xx.yy website issue

Question

If you have site following this pattern(http://xx.yy/ ) internet explorer does not hold any cookies . Any solution ?

For example:

• http://co.uk
• http://gc.ca
• http://on.ca

Answer 1

This is essentially by-design. The workaround is to put a "www" before xx.yy.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ieinternals/archive/2009/09/19/Private-Domain-Names-and-Public-Suffixes-in-Internet-Explorer.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310676

http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html

Answer 2

Hmm.

So this interested me, and Eric Law is correct, however I have another work around that he does not seem to have listed.

Instead of:

http://aa.mk/

Make your url

http://aa.mk./

Note '.' as suffix.

It will go to the same website, and, as far as I've just tested, you can set cookies on this domain.

I verified in IE6 using the JavaScript cookie-setting code here passing the domain as "aa.mk.".