IP: Non-fat Cookies

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 16:06:42 -0800
>From: "Russell L. Schweickart" <rs@well.com>
>Reply-To: rs@well.com
>Organization: NRS Communications
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>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Non-fat Cookies
>
>Dave:
>
>In Allan Hunt-Badiner's recent msg re cookies and Shockwave he said...
>
>
> > >until now, cookies have been optional (although that is not widely
> > >known) and the norm has been for sites that use them not to block
> > >access to users who don't.  [etc., etc...]
>
>While I fully appreciate his point re "informing" Macromedia of one's
>displeasure re discriminating against cookie disablers, my own <stealth>
>technique for handling cookies might solve the problem.  However I could be
>wrong and would appreciate knowing if I am.
>
>My technique is to enable cookies, but convert my cookies file to read-only
>(right click on the file, go to properties, click on read-only).  During any
>active session, the cookies file ends up as an open file and appears "normal"
>to the website.  However, when you exit the browser the new info placed in
>the temp cookies file during the session, is ignored since the program
>reverts to the original (pre-session) read-only file.
>
>When I *want* to have something in my cookies file, e.g., my NYT account
>poop, I carefully disable the read-only feature, crank up the browser and go
>only to that site, do the logon, etc. and then exit and shut down the
>browser.  Resetting the cookies file to read-only again locks in the new
>account access info just placed there by the desired site.
>
>Seems to work well... been using it for years.  Will it work with
>Shockwave???
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