OW 3.1 accepts no Cookies!!

Ken Case kc at omnigroup.com
Wed Mar 22 06:53:44 PST 2000


OmniWeb definitely does support cookies:  I have cookies from about  
300 sites right now, including yahoo.com and nytimes.com.

If you pull up the OmniWeb console, turn on the "Show HTTP Requests"  
checkbox, and go to the URL in question  
(http://www05.billiger-telefonieren.de/sms/send.php3?action=form2&networkkey=Eplus),  
you'll find that that page doesn't actually send us a "Set-Cookie"  
header, so obviously we're not going to send one back.

Perhaps that site tried to send you a cookie on an earlier page, and  
expects that you'd have the cookie by the time you reached this  
page?  If you can give me a URL that actually sends a "Set-Cookie"  
header, I'd be quite willing to diagnose why that cookie gets lost.

Oh, wait a minute, perhaps this is one of the bugs in 3.1rc1 which I  
fixed for 4.0b1 (and have just finished rolling back into 3.1rc2).   
I believe the bug was that the HTTP session was looking up the  
authentication information and cookies for the first URL you visited  
at the site, and would not update that information for subsequent  
HTTP requests (which is why you'd have to reload to get past  
authenticating servers in 3.1rc1).  In 4.0b1 (and 3.1rc2), the  
session looks up your authentication information and cookies for  
every page you visit.

				Ken



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