Setting cookie domain

Question

I need to set a cookie for the selected index of a webform, so it can carry across multiple posts and keep the state (in other words if they select option1, and submit, then option1 is still selected on the form again, etc.)
this is the script i'm using to set the cookie:
function get_selected_state(){
               var selected_state = $('select[id="CAT_Custom_414023"] option:selected').val();
               setCookie('selected_state', selected_state, '/', '.domain.businesscatalyst.com');     
          function setCookie(c_name,value,path,domain,exdays){
               var exdate=new Date();
               exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + exdays);
               var c_value=escape(value) + ((exdays==null) ? "" : "; expires="+exdate.toUTCString()+";path="+path+";domain");
               document.cookie=c_name + "=" + c_value;
          function getCookie(c_name){
               var i,x,y,ARRcookies=document.cookie.split(";");
               for (i=0;i<ARRcookies.length;i++){
                    x=ARRcookies[i].substr(0,ARRcookies[i].indexOf("="));
                    y=ARRcookies[i].substr(ARRcookies[i].indexOf("=")+1);
                    x=x.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,"");
                    if (x==c_name){
                         return unescape(y);
          // if the cookie for state selection exists, set the form to it
          if(c = getCookie('selected_state')){
               $('option[value="'+c+'"]').attr('selected', 'selected');
          // set the cookie to the current selection
          get_selected_state();
          // and update it on reselection
          $('select[id="CAT_Custom_414023"]').on('change', function(){
               get_selected_state();
I've been checking it on the client site with greasemonkey and it works fine, but it doesn't work on the server. I figured the problem was the domain but I don't seem to be able to set the domain to match properly. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

You got a dot at the start of your cookie domain. Should not be there. Should be just domain.businesscatalyst.com and then the live domain when live. The cookie of course wont work through worldsecuresystems as a side note.