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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: cookies or redirection?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-04-12 6:14:26
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Lotzi Boloni wrote:
> > I'll admit that I read slashdot and even have an account with it.. and
> > would like to use konqueror to do so.  However, there are a number of
> > problems (most of which I've sent to lars in a private email).
> >
> > There is one that I don't understand nor know who is working on that
> > area.
> >
> > When you use accounts, slashdot uses cookies to log you in and it also
> > uses the 'index.pl' page.  With Netscape, if you go to
> > http://slashdot.org AND you have the slashdot cookie, you are
> > automatically redirected to index.pl.  This is *not* the case with
> > konqueror.  If you have the cookie and go to http://slashdot.org, then
> > nothing happens.
> >
> > Any clue what's going on or who is the expert in this realm?
>
>   The same problem is happening with my excite account. I had some idea
> that it is maybe a user-agent problem, because all the other functionality
> is aparently there.
>
>   It would be nice if we could use konqi on these sites.

slashdot works for me now. Please update, compile& install kcookiejar 
(kdelibs/kio/http/kcookiejar). 

restart with:
	kcookiejar --shutdown;kcookiejar

And let me know if you still have problems.

Cheers,
Waldo

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