[Mailman-Users] cookie feature request

[Rick Pasotto]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:40AM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:37:41 -0500, Rick Pasotto <rick at niof.net>
> wrote:
> > I've been bitten again.
> > 
> > I normally run junkbuster so cookies are turned off. Can mailman
> > check for this situation and alert that cookies are not functioning
> > instead of just asking again for the name/password with no
> > indication of why?
> 
> How would mailman know? All it sees is you (someone it has never
> authenticated, by lack of cookies) trying to access an administrative
> page.

Many sites tell me 'you do not have cookies enabled.'

If you set a cookie and then can't read it back it's clear that cookies
are not enabled.

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"The market is not an invention of capitalism.  It has
 existed for centuries.  It is an invention of civilization."
		-- Mikhail Gorbachev
		   Rick Pasotto email: rickp at telocity.com