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    Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape) —Todd Lehman
   (...) I figured out last night how to make a not-too-kludged transitional workable thingie. I made a thingie where it now stores 'virtual' cookies into your Member record. If you're signed in, then it fetches the virtual cookie from there as if it (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 
   
        Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape) —Richard Franks
     This is fantastic - THANKS! One question though - do you have to go through steps 1 and 2, to create 'virtual cookies', or will it work automatically for people now when they log in as members? Richard (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape) —Todd Lehman
     (...) You have to actually go through steps 1 and 2 (once) because the cookies aren't sent by your browser unless you're "in" the area of the website to which the cookie applies. (It's a bandwidth-saving optimization because some cookies can get (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape) —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) You rock. Guess i have to stop using "ToddIsAWeenie" as my password now. :-) (1) Can you let it check for a cookie on the machine first, and if present, use that (a particular machine may have different details such as org, for whatever (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape) —Todd Lehman
   (...) See (URL) (...) There's only one "virtual cookie" per member record -- so it doesn't support multiple news-posting configs. (...) That's not quite how it works -- it doesn't send you a cookie when you sign in. Rather, it notices that you've (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape) —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Too bad. What would be nice is letting me take explicit control of my cookies, that is, go to a page where LUGNET shows me all my LUGNET related cookies currently present on the machine, if any, and currently stored in my member record, if (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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