Something eating my cookies?
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Something eating my cookies?
Cookies in Phoenix seem to be disappearing after about a week. I have to relogin to Slashdot, or tell the BBC News site that I'm not in the Uk, roughly every 7 days.
Is this a common dumb thing that I just have set wrong? Or something more sinister?
Cheers,
rOD.
Is this a common dumb thing that I just have set wrong? Or something more sinister?
Cheers,
rOD.
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yup.
Me too. 12/28 build, win2k.
Cookies that I have saved in IE that never expire seem to not stick after a few days in Phoenix. I noticed the same thing in mozilla 1.2.1 also. In both browsers, it seems to have happened only after I had been using the browser for a good period of time, like a month or so, so I thought it might be a cache issue, but clearing the cache doesn't seem to help.
Cookies that I have saved in IE that never expire seem to not stick after a few days in Phoenix. I noticed the same thing in mozilla 1.2.1 also. In both browsers, it seems to have happened only after I had been using the browser for a good period of time, like a month or so, so I thought it might be a cache issue, but clearing the cache doesn't seem to help.
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Re: Something eating my cookies?
rODbegbie wrote:Is this a common dumb thing that I just have set wrong? Or something more sinister?
Actually, I saw something like this a few months back where Mozilla at work (Tru64 Unix) seemed to "forget" cookies every time I quit Mozilla (or restarted due to a crash). I even copied the cookie* files from my profile at home (where this didn't happen) to my work system. Same behavior.
It wasn't a bug in Mozilla, after all!
It turned out that the "privoxy" proxy filter that I had ported to Tru64 was changing all cookies to session cookies "quietly" for me, so when I exited Mozilla, Mozilla "correctly" deleted the session cookies.
So... do you have some sort of proxy that might be filtering cookies for you?
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Re: yup.
hackworth wrote:Cookies that I have saved in IE that never expire seem to not stick after a few days in Phoenix.
Precisely. And I've checked in the Privacy window, and Phoenix is aware that the expiration date is set to 2036, say. It'll stick around for a week, then disappear. I've not noticed any kind of logic or reason as to when this happens.
Anyone else seeing this?
rOD.
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Re: yup.
Aldreis wrote:Same with me. But only in Windows ( I´m using the 12/28 build, Linux and Win ).
No wonder I haven't run into that problem.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030131 Phoenix/0.5
Kubuntu 8.04 (kernel 2.6.24-25-generic) / KDE 3.5.10
CentOS 4.8 (kernel 2.6.9-78.0.22.ELsmp) / KDE 3.5.10
Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard) / iPhone 3GS (32GB black)
CentOS 4.8 (kernel 2.6.9-78.0.22.ELsmp) / KDE 3.5.10
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Any new word?
Hi, just pushing this thread back up to see if anyone knows of any progress made on this issue? The latest version of phoenix I have running is the march 4th build, I believe, and I am still having this problem. I love phoenix, but this problem is making me use Mozilla instead. :/
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I have never had a cookie problem on Windows 2K ever through several nightlies since 12/28.
Crashes kill favicons (& cache) but cookies are rock-solid. I even copy my cookie file to new build profiles w/o seeing a problem. I would suspect something else [privoxy-like] is doing this to you. Work/home? Proxy? Um, IE/Internet Options Control Panel could be doing this?
Seems like a major annoyance that's worth solving if it affects so many people....
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030313 Phoenix/0.5
Crashes kill favicons (& cache) but cookies are rock-solid. I even copy my cookie file to new build profiles w/o seeing a problem. I would suspect something else [privoxy-like] is doing this to you. Work/home? Proxy? Um, IE/Internet Options Control Panel could be doing this?
Seems like a major annoyance that's worth solving if it affects so many people....
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It is very annoying. I am using it at home, no proxy. What in the IE/Internet Options Control Panel could affect this? Anti-Virus software (norton AV 2002) wouldn't do this, would it?
I've been using mozilla1.3 for the past 3 weeks, and the problem is just now starting to show up there, too. same old story, works fine for a while, the kaput. it's like it gets "full" and wont' accept new cookies without dumping old ones, or somthing.
I've been using mozilla1.3 for the past 3 weeks, and the problem is just now starting to show up there, too. same old story, works fine for a while, the kaput. it's like it gets "full" and wont' accept new cookies without dumping old ones, or somthing.
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hackworth wrote:It is very annoying. I am using it at home, no proxy. What in the IE/Internet Options Control Panel could affect this? Anti-Virus software (norton AV 2002) wouldn't do this, would it?
I've been using mozilla1.3 for the past 3 weeks, and the problem is just now starting to show up there, too. same old story, works fine for a while, the kaput. it's like it gets "full" and wont' accept new cookies without dumping old ones, or somthing.
Cookies are a delicious delicacy. The little Cookie Monster inside your computer has his furry, blue torso-bag filled with crumbs and can eat no more.
I've had both Px & Moz (well, mostly mozmail) do some dag nasty dataloss acts when they don't close "right" but I have also had many perfect recoveries too. Maybe it's fake-closing? Check the Task Manager to make sure it has gone away.
I don't actually know of a Windows setting that could cause something this sporadic yet predictable. Norton Anything is not welcome on my computer. So....