I also confirm this bug. Cookies with a domain property that ends with a port
number are not saved in FF3+. This bug makes it hard to adequately test certain
authentication cases.

Without any further investigation of headers, "masking" as IE will allow Opera to sign in.

When you do:
1) login in "https"
2) all other in "http"
3) use Opera client
4) use non-standard port 
5) use AuthTkt cookie plugin
then port left in the domain in the cookie prevent Opera client to send cookie
to other port (i.e. http).

Solution: just remove port from cookie domain.

repoze.who.plugins.auth_tkt.py:

    def _get_cookies(self, environ, value):
        cur_domain = environ.get('HTTP_HOST', environ.get('SERVER_NAME'))
        cur_domain = cur_domain.split(":")[0] # this removes port if any
        wild_domain = '.' + cur_domain
        cookies = [


auth_tkt.py
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<         cur_domain = cur_domain.split(":")[0]
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<             #cur_domain = environ.get('HTTP_HOST', environ.get('SERVER_NAME'))
<             #wild_domain = '.' + cur_domain
---
>             cur_domain = environ.get('HTTP_HOST', environ.get('SERVER_NAME'))
>             wild_domain = '.' + cur_domain