>The Forms Authentication tag (in Web.config) has an attribute path.
>A book on ASP.NET says that "path Specifies the path fo cookies issued by the application. The default value is a backslash (/)...."
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>Therefore, the following example works:
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><forms name="ProgAspNetCookie" loginUrl="myForm.aspx" path="/" />
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>What I don't understand is what would be other choices (e.g. sample entries) in the path attribute? Would it be a name of a folder?

It would be a folder name - the name of a subweb/virtual directory if you have nested web applications and the cookie is for the subweb's use.