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Re: Troubles Setting up Cookies
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:20:55 GMT
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"Barbara Sproat" <BSproat@Novell.com> writes:
> I'm having troubles getting my account setup through the web interface.
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> I'm using Netscape 4.5 and I have set the cookie option to 'Accept only cookies
> that get sent back to the originating server'. However, I originally set up my
> account with cookies disabled. So now every time I post or reply I still get
> the following message:
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> ** Before doing anything else here, make sure that you have done the following:
> ** 1.Carefully and fully read the Terms of Use for this site.
> ** 2.Special note for 19 Oct 1998: Read the announcement about the web
> interface change.
> ** 3.Go through the Setup procedure to request permission to post
> messages.
> ** Continue
>
> I then have to Identify myself and check the Terms of Use box before I can post
> the message. How do I get rid of these messages so I can post and reply
> normally?
Here's how I would do it...
Go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced and select "Accept all cookies" and make sure
"Warn me before accepting a cookie" is checked. Then re-run the news-posting
setup page
http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/setup/
and confirm the acceptance of the cookie. Then go back to Edit/Preferences/
Advanced and change the cookie settings to whatever you had them before.
--Todd
p.s. By chance have you accessed the site using the URL
http://lugnet.com/news/...
instead of
http://www.lugnet.com/news/...
?
The cookies that go out are supposed to be *.lugnet.com-compatible (they say
simply '.lugnet.com' instead of 'www.lugnet.com' -- in case someone forgets the
'www.' prefix)... But I not sure I have all the nits picked out.
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