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Re: Cookie from banner GIF
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lugnet.publish
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Date:
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Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:53:31 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman writes:
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> At least one, perhaps two, of the geocities banners on this page:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/cool/banners/
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> is trying to send a cookie each time the banner is loaded -- bad bad bad.
> Can't have the CLSotW page sending cookies out to people like that. :-(
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> I have to figure out which images are doing it so that I can remove them
> (and/or ask the owner to fix them so they no longer send cookies). It
> doesn't look like all the geocities banners send cookies -- only some.
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> How can I easily figure out which ones are doing it? I have a hunch they're
> from Jeremy's banners because those two show up as broken links when I
> reject the cookies one by one manually.
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> Cookies are a Good Thing, but servers should *only* send them when the user
> has explicitly asked for one. Any other use of cookies is Evil. >%^E When
> the banners were added originally, they didn't used to do this.
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> --Todd
Hmm... has this only happened since the Yahoo - Geicities merge? Any problem
with my banners?
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| At least one, perhaps two, of the geocities banners on this page: (URL) trying to send a cookie each time the banner is loaded -- bad bad bad. Can't have the CLSotW page sending cookies out to people like that. :-( I have to figure out which images (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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