Odd cookie behaviour of particular www site
Dear All, I've been trying to visit the website <http://www.cosis.net/> with Firefox 3.6.4 on Gentoo. Even though I have an exception set in my preferences, to allow cookies from cosis.net, the site complains bitterly that `Cookies are currently disabled in your browser', and therefore refuses to let me see any of its content. This is particularly odd because, by this time, cosis.net actually has successfully set a cookie. When I access the same site with Lynx, www.cosis.net sets a single cookie, and lets me in just fine. Any ideas, please? -- Thanks, Dan
Dear All,
I've been trying to visit the website <http://www.cosis.net/> with Firefox 3.6.4 on Gentoo.
Even though I have an exception set in my preferences, to allow cookies from cosis.net, the site complains bitterly that `Cookies are currently disabled in your browser', and therefore refuses to let me see any of its content.
This is particularly odd because, by this time, cosis.net actually has successfully set a cookie.
When I access the same site with Lynx, www.cosis.net sets a single cookie, and lets me in just fine.
Any ideas, please?
Dan, Could it be that it is trying to set multiple cookies? Some sites try to set cookies for the site itself and also other domains, like an advertising domain. Perhaps you are accepting the site cookie but inadvertantly blocking another cookie. You could try one of the Firefox Addons like Firebug or one of the cookie handling ones to see what cookies are being set by the site. HTH, Peter.
Turns out this is an example of a known Firefox bug: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230350>. I found a workaround involving temporarily disabling Javascript. -- Thanks for the help, Dan
samwise wrote:
Dear All,
I've been trying to visit the website <http://www.cosis.net/> with Firefox 3.6.4 on Gentoo.
Even though I have an exception set in my preferences, to allow cookies from cosis.net, the site complains bitterly that `Cookies are currently disabled in your browser', and therefore refuses to let me see any of its content.
This is particularly odd because, by this time, cosis.net actually has successfully set a cookie.
When I access the same site with Lynx, www.cosis.net sets a single cookie, and lets me in just fine.
Any ideas, please?
Dan,
Could it be that it is trying to set multiple cookies? Some sites try to set cookies for the site itself and also other domains, like an advertising domain. Perhaps you are accepting the site cookie but inadvertantly blocking another cookie.
You could try one of the Firefox Addons like Firebug or one of the cookie handling ones to see what cookies are being set by the site.
HTH,
Peter.
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Dan asked:
I've been trying to visit the website <http://www.cosis.net/> with Firefox 3.6.4 on Gentoo.
Even though I have an exception set in my preferences, to allow cookies from cosis.net, the site complains bitterly that `Cookies are currently disabled in your browser', and therefore refuses to let me see any of its content.
This is particularly odd because, by this time, cosis.net actually has successfully set a cookie. [...] Any ideas, please?
After many redirects, it seems that the div#nocookies block is displayed, then hidden with the following javascript: <script type="text/javascript"> var nocookies = document.getElementById("nocookies"); if (checkBrowser() && (navigator.cookieEnabled != true) && nocookies && (nocookies.style.display=="none")) nocookies.style.display = "block"; </script> Maybe someone who knows javascript OTTOTH can explain why that doesn't work in Firefox 3.6.4 on Gentoo? Generally, it looks like made-for-specific-browsers silliness. I can't even tell what the site does as it replaced all pages with the javascript and cookies whine. If I was their customer, I wouldn't be for much longer. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and developer for hire at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op
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