in reply to Cookies and the macintosh

There is a known bug in some versions of IE on Mac which causes cookie problems if you don't set a path as well as all the other options for a cookie. I can't give you a cite for it right now, but I'll find one.

I'm surprised to hear it's happening in Mozilla though, and I'm surprised to hear it's happening intermittently.

The good news is IE5 on Mac has got very very detailed cookie management options. Go into the preferences and you can see all the details. Set the prefs to "ask for each cookie" and see what comes up.
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     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;

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Re: Re: Cookies and the macintosh
by Bishma (Beadle) on Aug 29, 2002 at 09:57 UTC
    The intermittent thing is whats baffeled me too. I've tried to find some pattern to it, but I haven't been able to.

    Also, I used to have it set up to set 3 cookies, one for each variable, and it would set different cookies at different times. Sometimes the name cookie would be saved, some times one date or the other, sometimes 2 cookies, sometimes none, and rarely all 3.

    I'll try setting a path and see if that helps. I only have access to mac's at work so I won't be able to test it until then.

    I should also note that the same problem occures in OS 9 and OS X.
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