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Re: How to stay permanently logged in at www.lego.com
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lugnet.publish
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Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:24:49 GMT
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Thats pretty interesting, but I have never logged into the Lego site. I
didn't know you could! It seems like I have to log into eBay all the time,
though, to see other user's email addresses. Is there any way to figure out
how to make that cookie "permanent"?
--
Have fun!
John
The Legos you've been dreaming of...
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego
my weird Lego site:
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/
Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> [crosspoted to lugnet.general & lugnet.publish; followups to • lugnet.publish]
>
> If you're sick of having to log in at www.lego.com each time you visit the
> site, here's how to fix that...
>
> The www.lego.com site stores a browser cookie with your "LEGO Web Club" • member
> information (name & password) when you sign in. This is cool: once you're
> signed in, you can do stuff without having to give your name & password • again
> on subsequent pages. Unfortunately, the cookie it sends is only a • temporary
> cookie which lasts only as long as your web browser is running. Once you
> shut down or restart your web browser, the cookie is lost. This is not • cool.
>
> So here's how to work around that shortcoming (this is for Netscape 4.x):
>
> *** DISCLAIMER *** FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS AT YOUR OWN RISK ***
>
> Go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced and check the box "Warn me before accepting
> a cookie." Now go to www.lego.com and sign in. Write down the data that
> pops up in the message box...it'll look contain something like this:
>
> LEGOSESSIONID=MZJWJMMAOWHEMLOJWN02BFoo
>
> (only it'll be different for you).
>
> Now shut down Netscape and go find your cookies.txt file. Make a backup • copy
> of cookies.txt before making any changes. Now open cookies.txt in a text
> editor that you *trust*. (You're on your own here -- if your editor chokes • on
> or chops or wraps long lines, it's not my fault.)
>
> Now add the following line to cookies.txt:
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> .lego.com TRUE / FALSE 2147483647 LEGOSESSIONID • MZJWJMMAOWHEMLOJWN02BFoo
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This will be • dependent
> on what you got from
> the message box.
>
> (And make sure that you put TABS where there are spaces shown above; in • other
> words, make it match the format of the other cookies in the file.)
>
> Now save cookies.txt, restart Netscape.
>
> There you have it. The cookie is now permanently stored, and won't expire
> for about 1.2 billion seconds (in the year 2038). If you ever want to • delete
> it, just re-edit cookies.txt in your text editor and delete that line.
>
> --Todd
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