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Answer by Bob for Why does putting a dot after the URL remove login information?

This is because example.com and example.com. are (sometimes!) considered different hosts, for two reasons:Because they actually can have different meanings, depending on your specific network...

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Answer by harrymc for Why does putting a dot after the URL remove login...

The explanation given by Mokubai is exactly correct, and the problem is inthe browser not identifying that this is the same domain and therefore notsending the cookies.But the situation is even worse:...

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Answer by Austin Hemmelgarn for Why does putting a dot after the URL remove...

Adding the dot to the end of the domain name makes it an absolute fully-qualified domain name instead of just a regular fully-qualified domain name, and most browsers treat absolute domain names as...

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Why does putting a dot after the URL remove login information?

Consider:When I put a dot after the Super User URL, https://superuser.com., it acted like I wasn't signed in. Why is this happening? What does a dot symbolize in the URL?

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