Re: problem with url-cookie.el

[Richard M. Stallman]

    This is due to the way cookies are defined. Quoting from RFC 2965:

        "A is a HDN string and has the form NB, where N is a non-empty name
        string, B has the form .B', and B' is a HDN string. (So, x.y.com
        domain-matches .Y.com but not Y.com.)"

Does this mean that David Reitter is trying to use the function
incorrectly?

    This seems to be because the function url-cookie-host-can-set-p does  
    not allow for the possibility that a fully-qualified hostname may  
    only have one dot in it. Indeed, if I evaluate

    (url-cookie-host-can-set-p "arxiv.org" ".arxiv.org")