[opensuse] cookies
Hello, all-- Apparently, ebay requires you to have a cookie. Is this the case, and if so, how can you enable JUST the cookie for ebay? And should you? Or is there another way? (I used to use ebay occasionally on Windows, and I suppose it allowed cookies.) --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:57, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello, all--
Apparently, ebay requires you to have a cookie. Is this the case, and if so, how can you enable JUST the cookie for ebay? And should you? Or is there another way? (I used to use ebay occasionally on Windows, and I suppose it allowed cookies.)
What's wrong with cookies? As long as you only allow them to be retrieved by the same site that set them (an available option in all the browsers I'm familiar with), there's really nothing being disclosed that was not put there by the site retrieving them later. Forbidding cookies just makes a lot of the Web work less well for the users.
--doug
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:10, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:57, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello, all--
Apparently, ebay requires you to have a cookie. Is this the case, and if so, how can you enable JUST the cookie for ebay? And should you? Or is there another way? (I used to use ebay occasionally on Windows, and I suppose it allowed cookies.)
What's wrong with cookies?
It's amazing what can be tracked with cookies, including across sites. There was an article, in The Australian I think, a few years ago describing information PBL had accumulated through cookies. How many times do you go to a website and get cookie requests from several? How hard would it be to match cookies across domains? Information readily available to seach site supplying a document includes referrer, client IP address, time. Say I go to http://www.example.com/ which sets a cookie and includes a document from http://tracker.example.com/, and passes the cookie data (or a token identifying it so as to hide what's going on), and tracker also sets a cookie. Then I go to http://shop.example.com/ and it includes a document from http://tracker.example.com. Cannot tracker match my two visits, and maybe record my credit card detaisl "for my greater convenience>" I tend to allow session cookies, but rarely permanent cookies. I also tend to use divers browsers and computers which surely must help confuse things. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Doug, Am Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007 00:57 schrieb Doug McGarrett:
Apparently, ebay requires you to have a cookie. Is this the case, and if so, how can you enable JUST the cookie for ebay? And should you? Or is there another way? (I used to use ebay occasionally on Windows, and I suppose it allowed cookies.)
What browser do you use? With konqueror you can selectively choose for which domain you want to allow cookies or not ... In Firefox there's a similar concept to define domains, where cookies are not allowed. Just browse the configuration dialog of you favourite browser to see if it has a similar capability ... -- MfG, David Mayr =========================== LunaBOX Network Solutions =========================== Haubensteigweg 55 D-87439 Kempten TelNr: 0831-5124808 FaxNr: 0831-5124809 Mobil: 0172-8673184 www.lunabox.de info@lunabox.de ================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-20 at 18:57 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Apparently, ebay requires you to have a cookie. Is this the case, and if so, how can you enable JUST the cookie for ebay? And should you? Or is there another way? (I used to use ebay occasionally on Windows, and I suppose it allowed cookies.)
Using firefox, for instance, you can tell it to ask you always if you allow each cookie. When cookies arrive, you can say, yes, no, or only for this session, and to remember or not your decission. And later, you can see the list of cookies and sites and your policy. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF24/jtTMYHG2NR9URAlDSAJ9r5YpJ5frHC9dD6zszcOR4NRBW6QCfQjcI hxQRRVwQ3TopV9mZBl7F2vE= =dXN2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Doug McGarrett escribió:
Hello, all--
Apparently, ebay requires you to have a cookie. Is this the case, and if so, how can you enable JUST the cookie for ebay? And should you? Or is there another way? (I used to use ebay occasionally on Windows, and I suppose it allowed cookies.)
--doug
In the vast mayority of cases, cookies are safe and does not poses any significant security concern for most users. You can safetely accept them, just keep your browser updated and do not lower the default secuirty settings.
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
Doug McGarrett escribió:
Hello, all--
Apparently, ebay requires you to have a cookie. Is this the case, and if so, how can you enable JUST the cookie for ebay? And should you? Or is there another way? (I used to use ebay occasionally on Windows, and I suppose it allowed cookies.)
--doug
In the vast mayority of cases, cookies are safe and does not poses any significant security concern for most users.
You can safetely accept them, just keep your browser updated and do not lower the default secuirty settings.
========= You can also set, in both Konqueror or Firefox, the browser to accept cookies for that session only. As soon as you close the browser window, all cookies are removed. I believe this is referred to as "session cookies" in the settings for Konqueror. Firefox & SeaMonkey will just let you keep them until the browser closes in their settings. This way, you can accept the cookies from any site you visit without fear of someone still tracking you later. Nice feature regards, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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