diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 782448dd..5d4b716a 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-12-01  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
+
+	* cookies.c (path_matches): FULL_PATH doesn't begin with '/', but
+	PREFIX does.
+
 2001-12-01  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
 
 	* cookies.c (check_domain_match): Reimplement to match Netscape's
diff --git a/src/cookies.c b/src/cookies.c
index a0937e34..74316791 100644
--- a/src/cookies.c
+++ b/src/cookies.c
@@ -869,13 +869,20 @@ find_matching_chains (const char *host, int port,
 static int
 path_matches (const char *full_path, const char *prefix)
 {
-  int len = strlen (prefix);
-  if (strncmp (full_path, prefix, len))
+  int len;
+
+  if (*prefix == '/')
+    /* Our HTTP paths don't begin with /; do the same change to
+       PREFIX.  */
+    ++prefix;
+
+  len = strlen (prefix);
+  if (0 != strncmp (full_path, prefix, len))
     /* FULL_PATH doesn't begin with PREFIX. */
     return 0;
 
   /* Length of PREFIX determines the quality of the match. */
-  return len;
+  return len + 1;
 }
 
 static int