diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index 47842d6c7..3c6dd642e 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@ contimeout <timeout>
 
 
 cookie <name> [ rewrite | insert | prefix ] [ indirect ] [ nocache ]
-              [ postonly ] [ domain <domain> ]
+              [ postonly ] [ domain <domain> ]*
   Enable cookie-based persistence in a backend.
   May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
@@ -1585,7 +1585,12 @@ cookie <name> [ rewrite | insert | prefix ] [ indirect ] [ nocache ]
 
     domain    This option allows to specify the domain at which a cookie is
               inserted. It requires exactly one paramater: a valid domain
-              name.
+              name. If the domain begins with a dot, the browser is allowed to
+              use it for any host ending with that name. It is also possible to
+              specify several domain names by invoking this option multiple
+              times. Some browsers might have small limits on the number of
+              domains, so be careful when doing that. For the record, sending
+              10 domains to MSIE 6 or Firefox 2 works as expected.
 
   There can be only one persistence cookie per HTTP backend, and it can be
   declared in a defaults section. The value of the cookie will be the value
diff --git a/src/cfgparse.c b/src/cfgparse.c
index d433ea314..e74b7687a 100644
--- a/src/cfgparse.c
+++ b/src/cfgparse.c
@@ -1475,7 +1475,21 @@ int cfg_parse_listen(const char *file, int linenum, char **args, int kwm)
 					goto out;
 				}
 
-				curproxy->cookie_domain = strdup(args[cur_arg + 1]);
+				if (!curproxy->cookie_domain) {
+					curproxy->cookie_domain = strdup(args[cur_arg + 1]);
+				} else {
+					/* one domain was already specified, add another one by
+					 * building the string which will be returned along with
+					 * the cookie.
+					 */
+					char *new_ptr;
+					int new_len = strlen(curproxy->cookie_domain) +
+						strlen("; domain=") + strlen(args[cur_arg + 1]) + 1;
+					new_ptr = malloc(new_len);
+					snprintf(new_ptr, new_len, "%s; domain=%s", curproxy->cookie_domain, args[cur_arg+1]);
+					free(curproxy->cookie_domain);
+					curproxy->cookie_domain = new_ptr;
+				}
 				cur_arg++;
 			}
 			else {