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(...) What cookie text does your browser say is being sent to it? (It should show you in a confirmation dialog if you have the confirm-cookies option enabled.) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) For this string: -.loc. +.loc.us +.loc.ca +.loc.uk from within NS I get: NEWSGROUPFILTER=-.lo...%2B.loc.uk However, the water is muddy because I have both IE and NS running at the same time (my mem just got boosted to 320M so I can do that, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, looks correct. (...) You have two differently branded browsers running which share the same cookie jar? (Or am I misunderstanding?) I always thought that MSIE and NN had totally separate cookies and couldn't interfere with each other. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No. At least not that I know of. (...) I think so. Plus I poorly worded. Mostly it was ME that was confused. Let's review the steps (independent of any browser). I go to the skip setting page. your server asks my browser for a cookie. if it (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Almost -- the default value is actually -.off-topic. -.admin. but that's most likely not relevant to the problem you're seeing. (...) Bizarre. I wonder if it might be thinking that www.lugnet.com doesn't match .lugnet.com ? (It's supposed to, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ah, but do they really match? In (URL), you (Todd) wrote: (...) "any server in the domain .lugnet.com" is not necessarily the same as "the originating server", which is www.lugnet.com, correct? Can you possibly alter your cookie so it is being (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, probably not, but I'm not sure how browsers interpret the "only to the originating server" phrase... A browser -could- (and I would think should) remember that a ".foo.bar" cookie came from "www.foo.bar" if it was going to place (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Try this (basic info for users): (URL) and this (info for web developers): (URL) and a spec: (URL) Disclaimer: I've never created a web site that sent cookies. :-) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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