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Re: Opera Software browser (was: Re: MSIE5 security hole)
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Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:56:45 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.publish, "abieler" <abielerMAPSON@netzero.net> writes:
> 
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > Hmm, it's kind of crippled without cookie support, isn't it.  Not that I'm
> > > a fan of the way so many sites mis-use cookies, but when they're used the
> > > right way, cookies are a goshdarn excellent browser feature.
> > 
> > I hope it has cookie support.  Otherwise, there's somthing kinda scary
> > aboutthis COOKIES.DAT in my user directory!
> 
> Hey!  I see a cookies.dat file in my user directory too.  That's very
> interesting.  Hmm.  Darn thing's binary (boo! hiss!) but anyway, as far as I
> can tell, the cookies feature in Opera 3.60 is forgen borken.  If you know
> how to make 'em work, I'd love to know (so I can tell users how if they ever
> ask).  I've got "Enable Cookies" checked in the Advanced Preferences dialog
> box, and yet it won't remember cookies on two different pages that Navigator
> and Exploiter do just fine.

What sites are these?  I'll try them with mine.

> > Seriously, I have Opera 3.60 and it works beautifully.  It has JavaScript with
> > an amazing feature:  You can have JavaScript on for all the cool onmouseover
> > stuff, but you can shut off window create so those stupid banners don't pop-up!
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> > It's really worth getting.  Even if you don't have a problem with NS/IE's
> > Hard-drive clogging, slow loading or constant crashing.
> 
> But it doesn't do <DL></DL>.  :-(

Mine does it just fine.  How were these tags used?

It passed this short test with flying black-on-grey:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Definition List Test</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>

<DL>
<DT>Spoon</DT>
<DD>A small shovel used to get pudding into ones face.</DD>
<DT>Fork</DT>
<DD>A small fork used to fork pork into ones pudding.</DD>
</DL>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Maybe you (or whomever the author was) didn't close a tag.

Amos Bieler
That's not pineapple, it's a spam-upside-down-cake!



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  Re: Opera Software browser (was: Re: MSIE5 security hole)
 
(...) I can't give out the URLs because they're private LUGNET-admin pages, but one that you could test which uses the same cookie-storage code is this: (URL) guess is: If a website named www.foo.com sends a cookie labled .foo.com, that Opera (...) (27 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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  Re: Opera Software browser (was: Re: MSIE5 security hole)
 
(...) Hey! I see a cookies.dat file in my user directory too. That's very interesting. Hmm. Darn thing's binary (boo! hiss!) but anyway, as far as I can tell, the cookies feature in Opera 3.60 is forgen borken. If you know how to make 'em work, I'd (...) (27 years ago, 2-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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