Re: Why doesn't cookies work?

On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:03:14AM +1000, Dancer wrote:
> Petr Procenko wrote:
> >
> > Hello Squid Users,
> >
> > I am running Squid 2.1patch2 on Linux RedHat 5.1 with kernel
> > 2.0.36, i've applied a patch for correct acl work (if it matters).
> > We use proxy_auth acl's.
> > Often users get messages from sites like www.microsoft.com, or
> > www.hotmail.com "Cookies are disabled in your browser", but they
> > doesn't! How can I work it out?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Petr mailto:petr@appleclub.donpac.ru
>
> Squid _may_ cache a page that contains cookie headers. If it does, it
> should remove the cookie headers (I believe this behaviour is according
> to spec). Some ill-designed sites may not work well with this sort of
> thing. I note both are Microsoft sites.

I note that Hotmail is only Microsoft-owned, and still running Apache on Solaris
because NT couldn't do the job.

Greetz, Peter

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