If I refuse cookies, I get logged out on the next load. I don't think you have cookies disabled like you think.

Perhaps you only have cross-session cookies disabled so that you can have a cookie that exists for the life of a browser but won't get saved to "the cookie file" and so disappears when you close your browser.

If you don't check the "remember me" box when you log in, then PerlMonks only uses a short-term cookie ("session cookies").

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")