Commerce Bank (fwd)

[Gene E. Dascher]

	I have cookies set to 400 and "Accept all Cookies" set because a lot of
sites post a warning if you have 'Do not accept or Send cookies'
checked.  This way, they ignorantly try and write to my cookies file and
cannot, BUT I do not get any error or warning messages.  That way, the
Commerce Bank site can read my cookies file and validate whatever
information it needs to, BUT no one can add any new cookies to it.  For
the most part, I think that cookies are evil, so this is a good way to
discourage them.  This is the first and only instance that I have EVER
found that writing to the cookies file was necessary to accessing a web
site's functions.

Gene

> You can accomplish this in a less "creative" manner thusly:
>
> $ chmod 600 ~/.netscape/cookies
> $ netscape &
>
> Edit ->
> Preferences ->
> Advanced ->
> Cookies ->
> [X] Do not accept or send cookies
>
> A better option would be:
>
> Edit ->
> Preferences ->
> Advanced ->
> Cookies ->
> [X] Only accept cookies originating from the same server as
> the page being
> viewd
>
> [X] Warm me before accepting a cookie
>
> Personally, I find cookie warnings annoying.  My Netscape is set the
> second way and I don't have the warning checked.
>
> --
> Chris
>
>