Daniel wrote:
LMH wrote:
Richard Tasker wrote:
LMH wrote:
What exactly constitutes a session? When I open seamonkey, I have it
set to open the email window. If I open the browser
window, close the browser, and open it again, it would appear that
this is still the same session. Session only cookies
are still present, even though the browser has been opened and closed.
Is it necessary to close the entire SM
application, or switch users, to create a new session?
Also, my cookie permissions seem to be disappearing. I use google as
my home page. When I open my browser, I get a
prompt to set a cookie. I select, "allow for session", and check the
"use every time" check box, but every time I open
my browser I get the same prompt asking if that cookie can be set. I
also get a cookie request from id.google.com. I set
this to "block" and "use every time", but I get that request ever time
I open my browser as well.
LMH
You do have to close everything to end a session.
RET
Any idea as to why my cookie permissions are disappearing? If I click on
"allow for session" and "use every time", I still get these prompts the
next time I visit the site (if I have closed out SM between visits). I
looked in the cookie permissions and the entry for the domain is missing.
1. open SM and log into a profile
2. open the browser
3. go to google.com
4. I get a permission request to set a cookie
5. select "allow for session" and "use every time"
6. these permissions are now in the data manager under google.com
7. close seamonkey
8. open SM and log into a profile
9. open the browser
10. open the data manager
11. there is no longer any cookie permissions entry for google.com
12. go to google.com
13. same cookie requests as before
It would appear is if the cookie permissions are being deleted when the
session cookie expires, which defeated the purpose of "use every time".
This is happening with sites other than google as well.
My overall settings under Preferences > Privacy and Security are,
Allow cookies from originating site only
Ask for each cookie, except session cookies
This page has changed a bit over time. I would like to be prompted for
each cookie, but I would like the permissions to stay in place so I
don't have to re-set them every time I visit every site. This has always
worked well, so either something has changed and I don't understand the
settings, or there is a bug.
LMH
LMH, it seems to me that whilst you have any part of SeaMonkey open,
then a session cookie should still be in force.......but, then again, as
cookies only apply in the browser (I think), maybe a session is only
whilst the browser is open!!
If you are accepting a cookie for "a session only", what can you "use
every time"?? The next time you go there, there is nothing to use!!
The "use every time" check box refers to the "cookie permission rule"
and not to the cookie itself.
When you have cookie expiration set to "ask for each cookie", a prompt
box appears every time a site tries to set a cookie. There are three
buttons to choose from.
1. allow
2. allow for session
3. block
There is also a check box "use my choice for all cookies from this site"
If you check the "use my choice for all cookies from this site" check
box, a rule is created in the data manager under the domain that
attempted to set the cookie. If you select "allow" and "use for all",
you will never get asked again. Every time you go to that site, the rule
is applied instead of prompting you for what to do. If you look in your
cookie manager, you will find hundreds of rules for domains. Most of
these are set to block a site from setting cookies.
It is these rules that seem to be Disappearing. If I close SM and open
it again, when I open my browser I find no cookie rule for the google
domain what so ever. There is a "never save" passwords rule, but nothing
for cookies. If I go to google and select "allow for session" and "use
for all", there will be an entry in the cookie manager showing this
rule. If I close SM and open again, the rule is gone and I have to
manually set the cookie permissions for google again.
This is absolutely new behavior. I have been using SM since it was
mozilla, and ever since session cookies were introduced, I have been
doing things more or less the same way.
Even if I manually add a rule in the data manager, it is not there after
I close and reopen SM. It is the cookies that expire at the end of the
session, not the rules you create for cookie permissions.
LMH
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