[Given the recent upset here regarding cookies, of which I only have the most cursory knowledge, I hope some will find this tidbit of use.]
From: jerryw@convex.com (Jerry Whelan) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc Subject: Re: Cookie problem here , cookie problem there ... Date: 1 Jul 1996 14:28:39 -0500 Lines: 28
In article <4r8m92$4u@news.istar.ca>, Gord Jeoffroy <crs1583@inforamp.net> wrote: -} Margaret <margaret@werple.net.au> wrote: -} -} >You can disable the warnings, you cannot disable the cookies. I am -} >cancelling every cookie I encounter (I usually avoid sites heavy -} >with cookies), reason - I hate invasion of privacy and in particular, -} >junk email from direct marketing. -} -} -} I completely agree with your sentiment, by the way. I'm planning to -} add an editorial to an online magazine I'm beginning. The article will -} be full of server-side includes to demonstrate to the person reading -} it that Big Brother definitely is watching. I don't have any connection with these guys, except that I use their software. Check out www.privnet.com and the Internet Fast Forward netscape plugin for Windows. It can selectively filter cookie transmissions to web servers as well as some other very cool stuff like filter out unwanted images, including but not limited to advertisements. You will be amazed how much more information you can get on your screen when you filter out the useless images, like the one netscape puts at the top of their home page. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Whelan -- Information Superman jerryw@convex.com -- http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm ...for the best in unapproved information "We think people like seeing somebody in a uniform on the porch." -US Postal spokeswoman, quoted in AP 1/27/96. I don't know about you, but the only folks I know who'd enjoy seeing someone in uniform on their porch are leathermen...