PingFederate Server

Specifying the domain of the PF cookie

PingFederate identifies sessions by their respective PingFederate cookie. You can specify the domain of these cookies.

About this task

By default, the PingFederate cookie is set without domain information in the HTTP header.

Set-Cookie: PF=zOv4xxmzDI2rx1TFBFy78X;Path=/;Secure;HttpOnly

You can configure PingFederate to return the Set-Cookie HTTP header with domain information, as needed.

Steps

  1. Edit the <pf_install>/pingfederate/server/default/data/config-store/session-cookie-config.xml file.

  2. Modify the cookie-domain element.

    Example:

    <c:item name="cookie-domain">.example.com</c:item>

  3. Save the change.

  4. Restart PingFederate.

    For a clustered PingFederate environment, perform these steps on the console node. Then, click Replicate Configuration on System > Server > Cluster Management.

Result

After you activate this change, PingFederate includes domain information in its Set-Cookie HTTP header.

Set-Cookie: PF=aDfPx6uwbbWGFhwE6zEhEG;Path=/;Domain=.example.com;Secure;HttpOnly