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Re: Smart Fine Print

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Ingram)
Tue Jul 9 23:20:14 1996

Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 17:52:01 -0700
From: Gene Ingram <gene@hpfsvr01.cup.hp.com>
Reply-To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

Michael Brennen wrote:
> 
> Just edit the cookies.txt file to be empty (or delete it and touch it),
> then set the read only attribute on the file.

If you want to make people wonder ``how'd he do that?'' then give 
cookies.txt a hidden attribute.  You tell them that if they buy 
lunch you'll tell them.  :-)

Gene

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