Stealth cookies

Tue Aug 6 21:23:48 PDT 1996

John F. Fricker wrote:
> Oh I was just being paranoid I guess. There used to be JavaScript that would
> automatically send email from a page. something like
> 
> <html>
> <body onLoad="document.mailme.submit()">
> <form method=post name="mailme"
> action="mailto:john at vertexgroup.com?subject=user address">
> <input type=hidden name="userAddress" value="done">
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> But even if that still works it would be a good trick to associate it with a
> cookie.

  This was a bug that existed for a short time, and was fixed about
6 months ago.  Javascript can not submit mailto: forms at all, and
all mailto: forms now cause a warning dialog to come up(the dialog
can be turned off in preferences).

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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