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Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Lyles)
Mon Apr 14 16:48:04 1997
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
cc: lyles@parc.xerox.com, "cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Apr 1997 09:14:47 PDT."
<Pine.SUN.3.96.970414115216.28199C-100000@polaris.mindport.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:38:02 PDT
From: Bryan Lyles <lyles@parc.xerox.com>
In message <Pine.SUN.3.96.970414115216.28199C-100000@polaris.mindport.net>you w
rite:
>
>I might add that I would like an option on cookie supression to bypass
>that annoying dialog such to never allow cookies. It gets a bit much when
>a page askes for 9 cookies in a row and the only way to prevent them is to
>get beeped at repeatedly. Again, don't confuse the novice, don't slow
>down the expert.
>
If you are running Netscape on Unix try:
cd .netscape
rm cookies
ln -s /dev/null cookies
Then set your netscape to accept cookies. The cookies slide smoothly down the
throat of /dev/null and never, ever, come back out.
-Bryan
