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Bug 14873 - Allowing setting of cookie prefix
Allowing setting of cookie prefix
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.12.x
All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-07-21 00:38 UTC by Renate
Modified: 2010-05-15 15:54 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Renate 2008-07-21 00:38:00 UTC 
Currently $wgCookiePrefix is assigned in Setup.php.
It is some variant of the DB name.
On a shared hosted server the DB name itself can not be set but is a random string like "db12345678".
Whether divulging this info represents even a negligible security threat is unknown.
I would like $wgCookiePrefix to be user settable.

My suggestion:

In DefaultSettings.php put $wgCookiePrefix=false;

In Setup.php put if ( $wgCookiePrefix ) {} elseif ...
Comment 1 Chad H. 2008-07-21 21:53:54 UTC 
Done in r37893
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