LWN status update [LWN.net]

LWN status update

Posted Jul 30, 2002 20:48 UTC (Tue) by crouchet (guest, #1084)
In reply to: LWN status update by cpeterso
Parent article: LWN status update

I find that my LWN login only works if I allow full cookie access. I prefer to only allow cookies back to the originating site but that is no go for LWN. My browser is Netscape, but I would not be surprised if you have a similar problem with IE.

OTOH, If you were to install Netscape (the Windows version looks identical to the Linux version AFAICT) then you also get some cool capabilities, like the ability to stop unrequested pop-up windows. For more info on how to do that, go to http://techaholic.net/ns7.html

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LWN status update

Posted Jul 31, 2002 4:50 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

<sigh>

I figured this out about 36 hours after the cut, and *told* Jon...

It works if you go to http://lwn.net, and reliably breaks if you go to http://www.lwn.net.

On IE5/W2K, anyway.
--j

Posted Jul 31, 2002 8:25 UTC (Wed) by jalapeno (guest, #1042) [Link]

The cookies break for me if I go to lwn.net, but they work if I go to www.lwn.net. Maybe it depends on where you were when you got the cookie...

Posted Jul 31, 2002 13:58 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Most curious.

I had *always* gone to www.lwn.net, until I found out that I couldn't reliably log in from there.

What it had looked like to me was that the cookies were for lwn.net, not .lwn.net... and my suggestion had been to redirect www. to the base domain. I don't see that that's happened, but I now realize they've probably been to busy to fix it; it's not exactly a class-1 bug.
-- j