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Re: MSNBC and cookies
Joel McNamara writes:
: In attempting to check out different Net media coverage of TWA 800, it
: appears the msnbc.com site won't let you in without a cookie. Repeated
: cookie cancels with Navigator 3.0 drop you into an indigestive loop of the
: server continuing to try to force feed you cookies. When you finally click
: OK, you get in.
:
: Am I spacing, or is this the first site anyone's stumbled on that requires a
: cookie for access? I've never been shut out of a site for canceling a
: cookie. The first cookie request does have a user ID field. If the server
: (or client) isn't misbehaving, this seems like a wee bit of a privacy issue.
:
: I tried accessing the page (http://www.msnbc.com) on 7/18/96 around 9:15 PM
: PDT. Anyone care to confirm this.
I can confirm it. I never gave them the cookie. Had one hell of a
job backing out. I don't know what would have happened if I had set
my cookies file to be read only.
It's a nuisance, but I suppose there is no reason that a commercial
service can't do such a thing. But what happens when one tries to
access it with Lynx?
I too am using Navigator 3.0 (the new beta with strong crypto)--I
wonder if people who use MS's explorer or whatever it is called are
faced with the same problems?
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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