[2378] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Cookies and "smart fine print"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurent Demailly)
Wed Jul 10 08:14:32 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:45:08 +0200
From: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
To: Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>
Cc: frank@netscape.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu,
tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu, szabo@netcom.com
In-Reply-To: <199607100242.VAA08993@is.rice.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Prentiss Riddle writes:
[...]
> I've been running Navigator 3.0 with the "ask before accepting cookie"
> option turned on for a few days now. I'm afraid it's not as useful as
> one might hope. For one thing, on some sites there are a half dozen or
> more cookie requests per page (attached to inline images, I suppose).
> The continual cookie approval popups get to be very annoying.
[...]
A solution could be to use my personal privacy enhancer, which filters
almost everything in the queries and could be customized for selective
filtering.
http://www.lyot.obspm.fr/~dl/wwwtools.html#proxy
(you'll need to grab tclbin package and compile it (and tcl-7.5 before
that) to use it... If someone volunteers for making a binary
distribution for Windows and MacOs, It could be great...)
Regards
dl
ps: the proxy itself is not running anymore on my host because I'll be
switching job/place very soon (offers welcome!), source code etc... is
still available.
--
Laurent Demailly * http://hplyot.obspm.fr/~dl/ * Pobox email: dl@mail.dotcom.fr
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