Re: [saml-dev] common domain cookie

Tom Scavo wrote on 11/15/2004, 7:50 AM:

 > Hi,
 >
 > In the common domain cookie defined by the IdP Discovery Profile, why
 > is each providerId base64-encoded?

We (Liberty) had alot of early interoperability problems with cookies
because of different versions of the Set-Cookie specs and brower
limitations, so I presume this is an attempt to make it much less
likely to cause a problem.

Conor