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Subject: 
Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:46:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:

By chance are you using MSIE?  I've seen one other nasty cookie bug in MSIE
for the Mac -- it pre-decodes %xx-encoded cookie data before transmitting it!

Yep, I'm using MSIE5.

Let's try this...instead of sending the empty string "", I'll tell the server
to send the cookie "+"[1] whenever it really wants to send the empty string.
Then whenever it gets back the "+" cookie, it'll convert this back to "" at
the lowest level (all transparent to the UI, etc.)

Now the page seems to work correctly.  I put in "+lugnet" for the
filter, and it came back saying my current filter is "<I>(none)</I>".

Steve



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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Excellent! --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Hmm, thanks for the data. I can only think of one thing that's consistent with that data. I have a hypothesis: Your web browser has a bug, and it is tossing (ignoring) empty-string cookies rather than storing and reporting back the empty (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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