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Re: Interface changes coming today
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:28:23 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpien@NOSPAM.ctp.com> writes:
> > The other part of it, of course,
> > is the part which optionally stores a cookie on your machine -- and that's
> > local to your machine and you can't see or change anyone else's cookies.
> > If you change the cookie, you've changed what's stored in your browser, but
> > the server still has your old name/email combo to pass messages.
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> OK, if I post using the web interface from multiple machines, do I need to
> enter my info exactly as before to get the cookie for the second machine, AND
> be able to post?
Yes. Well, no. Let me break that into two questions.
Yes, you need to enter the info exactly as before to post.
No, you don't need to enter the info exactly as before to get the cookie for
the second machine. But if you want the cookie to be correct, the info
should be exactly as before. (Note that the Organization is not part of the
comparison -- only the name & email addr.)
> What if it's slightly different (say, my name is misspelled
> but the email matches)?
Then the server wouldn't recognize you and wouldn't accept your posting.
> Cookies themselves are machine independent.. that is,
> if the server decides to emit one the second time, my second machine will store
> it. My question is: WILL the server emit another one?
The server emits a cookie only when you have the checkbox set asking it to.
Each time you make a change to any of the info at the /news/post/setup/
page, and you have that checkbox checked, the server will send a new,
updated cookie to your machine when you press the Submit button. If you
uncheck the box and had a cookie previously stored, then the server sends a
cookie-command asking your browser to delete the cookie.
> Will I get a second confirming email?
Email will be sent out whenever a new (x,y) combination is entered into the
system, where x is your name and y is your e-mail address, as given in the
News-Posting Identity dialog box.
So if you fill out the form exactly the same on N different machines, you
get one and only one confirmation email. The only reason for filling out
the form on N different machines would be to have a cookie stored on N
different machines. The (x,y) combination is simply a name/email tuple that
the server uses to recognize people in From lines.
If you fill out the form slightly differently N different times, you may get
N different confirmation emails -- depending on how differently you filled
it out.
--Todd
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| (...) My question is: WILL the server emit another one? (...) OK great, thanks. I probably OUGHT to get one of those cookie manager things and just copy cookies around from machine to machine. ++Lar ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Why pick on ME?? I'm not the one who started invoking your name in examples, after all... :-) (...) OK, if I post using the web interface from multiple machines, do I need to enter my info exactly as before to get the cookie for the second (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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