I'm sending 2 cookies to the browser. One is a browser identifier which expires in 1 year, and the other is a session tracker without an expiration. The response headers for a fresh request look like this
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-XSS-Protection: 0
ETag: "b502a27282a5c621f34d522c3fcc8e3e"
Set-Cookie: bid=ahFmaXJld29ya3Njb21wdXRlcnIPCxIHQnJvd3NlchimigcM; expires=Fri, 12-Aug-2011 05:21:55 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: rid=1281569589; Path=/about
Expires: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:33:09 GMT
Cache-Control: private, max-age=345600
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:33:09 GMT
I'm trying to access both cookies from JavaScript on the page.
In Firefox and Chrome document.cookie gives me this
"rid=1281568223; bid=ahFmaXJld29ya3Njb21wdXRlcnIPCxIHQnJvd3Nlchj2nAYM"
In IE6, IE7, IE8 document.cookie only gives me this
"bid=ahFmaXJld29ya3Njb21wdXRlcnIPCxIHQnJvd3Nlchj2nAYM"
Is the 'path' attribute in my rid cookie throwing off IE or would it be the missing expiration date (which I thought was supposed to be optional)? I assume it is not the fact that I'm setting more than 1 cookie, because that's done all the time.