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Subject: Re: Evil Cookies.
From: Michael Bryan (bugtraqURSINE.COM)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 00:30:39 CST

On 2/8/00 at 4:24 PM Ari Gordon-Schlosberg wrote:

>[Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_GBIGFOOT.COM>]
>>
>> A better solution would be explicit (ie: finer grained) control of cookies.
>> Not as finely grained as the prompt option of Lynx, but more specific than
>> the current Netscape settings.
>
>Actually, this is implemented in a rudimentary way in IE 5.x, with their
>"zones" of security. If you're interested, take a look at Mozilla's M13
>milestone release. It allows fine-grained control of cookiees, with its
>"Never Accept Cookiees" domain/site list. It also gives the user an
>intuitive interface to actually browse their cookiees. (Look in the Wallet
>section).

A cool shareware tool called "Cookie Pal" (http://www.kburra.com/cpal.html)
gives you all sorts of excellent control over cookies, and works with several
browsers. Its biggest downside is that it's for Windows only. I highly
recommend checking it out if you're looking for better cookie management. 

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Michael Bryan
bugtraqursine.com