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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: cookies or redirection?
From:       Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       2000-04-12 10:05:32
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> 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.

Works fine. I'd have one more idea for the cookiejar, but I have no
idea how to implement it ;-)

I'd like kcookiejar to ignore all cookies not coming from the same domain
as the main html page I'm looking at. This would stop all cookies
associated with banner ads.

Cheers,
Lars

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