[Scspamcop] Re: mostly OT: Mozilla Firefox cookies

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On 1/10/2008 9:09 AM Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting scribbled:

> RandallW wrote:
>> I'm able to save cookies for IE, allowing my spam reporting page ( with 
>> login details saved ) in my Favorites folder, but it isn't working for 
>> Mozilla Firefox.  I've put Spamcop.net in the cookie-exception area ( set to 
>> allow ), and other times not having it there; the result is the same; the 
>> cookie isn't saving. 
> 
> I assume you're talking about the page 
> http://www.spamcop.net/mcgi?action=loginform which says...
> 
> <quote>
> Log in here: (requires cookies)
> Username:	
> Password: 	
> Login expires in: 	  	
> 
> For those who would rather not accept cookies, these "HTTP basic auth" 
> options are provided:
> </quote>
> 
> What version of Firefox are you using? I am using 2.0.0.11 and it has 
> worked fine for many moons.
> 
> I tried an experiment to disallow cookies, which caused the FF login to 
> fail, with red text on the Spamcop.net page telling me I had to check my 
> browser's config. When I added "www.spamcop.net" to the allowed 
> exceptions in the FF options/privacy page, it worked.

Since I usually run w/o allowing /any/ cookies, /I've/ never faced the
issue and SC never asked me for any permission - and I log in via
http://members.spamcop.net/ - never saw the link you show...