Joel McNamara writes: : In attempting to check out different Net media coverage of TWA 800, it : appears the msnbc.com site won't let you in without a cookie. Repeated : cookie cancels with Navigator 3.0 drop you into an indigestive loop of the : server continuing to try to force feed you cookies. When you finally click : OK, you get in. : : Am I spacing, or is this the first site anyone's stumbled on that requires a : cookie for access? I've never been shut out of a site for canceling a : cookie. The first cookie request does have a user ID field. If the server : (or client) isn't misbehaving, this seems like a wee bit of a privacy issue. : : I tried accessing the page (http://www.msnbc.com) on 7/18/96 around 9:15 PM : PDT. Anyone care to confirm this. I can confirm it. I never gave them the cookie. Had one hell of a job backing out. I don't know what would have happened if I had set my cookies file to be read only. It's a nuisance, but I suppose there is no reason that a commercial service can't do such a thing. But what happens when one tries to access it with Lynx? I too am using Navigator 3.0 (the new beta with strong crypto)--I wonder if people who use MS's explorer or whatever it is called are faced with the same problems? -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu