Are HTTP cookies port specific?

Question

I have two HTTP services running on one machine. I just want to know if they share their cookies or whether the browser distinguishes between the two server sockets.

Answer 1

I was experiencing a similar problem running (and trying to debug) two different Django applications on the same machine.

I was running them with these commands:

./manage.py runserver 8000
./manage.py runserver 8001

When I did login in the first one and then in the second one I always got logged out the first one and viceversa.

I added this on my /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1    app1
127.0.0.1    app2

Then I started the two apps with these commands:

./manage.py runserver app1:8000
./manage.py runserver app2:8001

Problem solved :)