Cookies across subdomains and hosts

Question

In the application I\'m writing using a combination of development environments and languages, I have need of accessing a cookie from two different subdomains, each on a separat

Answer 1

Does one of the subdomains use an underscore ? IE has problems accepting cookies from subdomain's that dont follow the URI RFC.

This is asumming 'distant' is a placeholder and not the actual subdomain name and of course that you use IE. Although more browsers could very well be effected by as, Fireworks doesn't though.