Well, I just thought that cookie rejection leading to plugin errors while browsing with konqueror might be of interest to konqueror users!
Joel On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:27:20PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > Its quite possible that the cookies are being accepted, and i'm none the > wiser. I'm not interested in messing around with my cookies. > > Quite honestly, i don't see what the big deal is about cookies. I > really dont' care much about what gets written. > > Joel Hammer wrote: > > Hmm.... > > > > I am not at home right now and can't give you the names, but there were at > > least two places hitting me with cookies, besides the NYTimes. I wonder if > > my ISP (Comcast) is doing this to me? Or, maybe you are taking those cookies > > and don't know it? > > > > Why not try changing your cookie policy to ask permission for all > > cookies, go to the NYTimes web site, and see if you don't get asked to allow > > some cookies from non NYTimes sites? > > > > Speaking of cookies, would it be bad to just use your firewall to block > > cookies from all those obnoxious advertising places, or would that make the > > browser hang up while the web page tries to download them on you? > > > > Joel > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:39:07PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > > > >>Joel Hammer wrote: > >> > >>>Second item worth bringing up. I was running konqueror (redhat 7.1) as a > >>>remote application on my wife's new linux box (an old retread win98 box), > >>>and all was well. I was reading the NYTimes, which is free but full of popup > >>>ads. I finally started rejecting cookies from those popup people. Suddenly, > >>>I started getting plugin errors galore from konqueror, which made it almost > >>>unusable. I restarted konqueror, with the same problem. So, I reset the > >>>cookie policy to accept those cookies again, and the problem went away. > >>> > >>>This seems like a bug in konqueror or a clever way for the NYTimes to > >>>avoid parasites like me. Has anyone else had a similar experience? > >> > >>I read the NYT website all the time with Mozilla. My cookie preference > >>is set to > >>allow only cookies originating from the site, and i don't have any problems. > >> > >>I've only encountered a 1-time popup at the NYT site, and it occurs on > >>the front > >>page. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 2:25pm up 9 days, 21:20, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.22, 0.18 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
