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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: cookies or redirection?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-04-12 17:07:30
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Lars Knoll wrote:
> 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.

The HTTP slave has to be told the "main-page" then. Or maybe a "main-page" 
should send along a flag which states that it is OK to send cookies for this 
request and never send a cookie for other requests.

Cheers,
Waldo

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