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Re: MSIE 5

  • To: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
  • Subject: Re: MSIE 5
  • From: Mark <markNTSHOP.NET>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:47:58 -0700
  • Approved-By: Russ.CooperRC.ON.CA
  • Importance: Normal
  • In-Reply-To: <000301be75b5$7d1151d0$dedededevinna.cl>
  • Reply-To: Mark <markNTSHOP.NET>
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Late last week, I had made MS aware of the cookie setting configuration
being reset during installation, in addition to another oddity I was
observing:

Apparently, if you accept one cookie from a site, all others are also
accepted without prompting, regardless of the cookie setting.

Also, if you have an old cookie from some site on your disk, and you revisit
that same site with the cookie setting adjusted to prompt for acceptance, no
prompt is given, and the cookie is automatically written to disk anyway.
Ouch.

this was observed on NT Workstation 4.0 with SP4, where I had installed IE5
as an upgrade to IE 4.01.xxxx

for the record, i've never seen my installation of IE5 crash due to not
accepting cookies (or any other reason for that matter.) i tried this at
www.enanet.org, where that sites sends a vertiable truckload of cookies at
you. maybe they should rename the site after the keebler elves ;-]

mark


>         I hope this will avoid headaches to system administrators:
> - MSIE 5, when installed, changes silently the setting for the cookies to
> "Accept always" no matter how did you have it in IE4 before. This
> is because
> M$ changed cookies configuration from the "Advanced" to the
> "Security" tab.
> - MSIE 5 cannot be used with cookies set to "Prompt before accepting" when
> visiting sites that send many cookies: after choosing NO (reject) to each
> cookie more than three or four times, MSIE will crash with a
> memory error. I
> was able to repeat the crash in some NT systems: a generic
> computer, a Dell
> computer, etc. Look for a cookie intensive site, like
> www.celebsite.com and
> see for yourself. I never saw this to happen on MSIE 4 SP1.
  • References:
    • MSIE 5
      • From: "Claudio Valderrama C." <cvaldeUSA.NET>