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Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies
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Matthew Kelly |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:40:24 -0400 (EDT) |
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, David Woolley wrote:
> > send_cookies : YES / NO / TO_ORIGINATING_SITE
>
> What's the difference between YES and TO_ORIGINATING_SITE - Cookies should
> never be sent anywhere else.
Netscape has a cookie setting
'only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being
viewed.'
I guess thats what I meant..
> One general point, can we make sure we don't follow MSIE and trick people into
> accepting cookies by defaulting to quietly accept and hiding the disable
> option on an obscure (advanced) options menu. I suspect IE5 may quietly
> drop the override entirely. At the risk of having to say RTFM more often,
> the default must be to prompt.
A default should be 'prompt' for sure ... I think a nice warning message
after accepting 'always accept' as a default ... warning: all cookies
accepted, no prompting or something like that would handle it.
Matt
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- lynx-dev The Importance of Lynx, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, Michael Warner, 1998/07/09
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1998/07/10
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, Scott Bigham, 1998/07/10
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, Matthew Kelly, 1998/07/18
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, pk, 1998/07/19
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, Rob Partington, 1998/07/19
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, pk, 1998/07/20
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, David Woolley, 1998/07/20
- Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies,
Matthew Kelly <=
- lynx-dev new cookie patch (was something long), Philip Webb, 1998/07/24
Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, pk, 1998/07/10
Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, David Henderson, 1998/07/20
Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies, David Combs, 1998/07/21