And it came to pass that Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
> What i'd like to see on the subject is that in the cookies
> window of the preferences. I'd like to view where exactly
> the company the cookie come from what its purpose is and
> date received. That way if i want to delete one to trouble
> shoot a problem. Example even in CookieCutter the
> information on the cookie is stuff that possibly a Unix
> expert could decipher. So I don't know whether to delete it
> or not.
>
> example I have a site called advisorExpress (Fidelity
> Advisor) that use to work in Communicator. Then it started
> taking at least a half-hour (even on DSL) to come up. Once
> in you had no problem going from page to page. If i used IE
> I had no problems. I wanted to delete just the cookie for
> AdvisorExpress to see if its a cookie problem. But even
> using cookiecutter I can't determine which one to delete.
>
> There is something almost like that in IE though it doesn't
> give quite enough info either.
>
The problem is you can't get the purpose of the Cookie unless
its author includes it somewhere. Mozilla DOES display:
Name
Information (which is admittedly apocryphal)
host (who put it there)
path
Secure Server
Expiration date.
It also allows you to remove cookies, and block them from being
re-accepted.
But little headway can be made until cookie handling is more
standardized than it is currently.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
Very funny Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.
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