[Xymon] Chrome cookie deprecations (fix/workaround)

Hi All,

I wanted to share my fix/workaround for the "Chrome cookie deprecation".

Put the following code above the closing body tag in the $XYMONHOME/web/stdnormal_footer template file.

<script type="text/javascript"> var metas = document.getElementsByTagName('meta');

for (var i=0; i<metas.length; i++) {
    var type = metas[i].getAttribute("HTTP-EQUIV");
    if (type == "Set-Cookie") {
        var prop = metas[i].getAttribute("CONTENT");
        document.cookie = prop;
    }
}

</script>

Chrome has disabled, as a security measure, the ability to set cookies using HTML tags. Xymon (as of v4.3.27) relies on HTML cookies to allow a user to go from a particular page of monitored hosts to either the "Acknowledge alert" or "Enable/Disable" pages and, based on the origin, filter the hosts/alerts for that page. I've noticed it, as have a few others in the Xymon community. This should get us by until a permanent fix can be implemented in a release version.

Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912 Phone: (507) 434-6817 edschminke at hormel.com | www.hormelfoods.com