Re: Galeon 1.2.5 to 1.3.19 conveersion a couple of questions

on Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:27:49AM +0000, Nix ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 11:10:05AM +0000, Crispin Flowerday ([email protected]) wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 21:19 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:

[valgrind stuff -- thanks]

> >> I'm not quite sure what you mean be this, in 1.3.19 you can accept
> >> cookies always, always ask, always ask except for session cookies,
> >> or force all cookies to be session cookies, what more do you want ?
> [...]
> > ...with an option being "allow cookie for session only".  It
> > effectively converts a persistant cookie to a session cookie.
> 
> That's, um, the `Cookies expire at the end of the session' option. :)

Correct me if I'm wrong[1], but that's a global setting, no?  Did you
look at the FFX dialog?

There are some cookies I'd prefer persisted.  I think.  I haven't worked
out the implications yet.

Actually, with a password manager, cross-session password persistance
isn't _too_ massively useful....
 

> > Adding the ability to query DNSBLs for specific actions (cookies, site
> > loading, image loading) is another feature I see becoming more prevalent
> > over the next year or so.
> 
> URIBLs seem more useful things to query: they're *meant* to track
> malicious URIs/URLs, after all.

Well, yeah, but same difference.  The idea is that you're doing a fast,
cachable lookup on a common, external resource.


 
> -- 
> `anybody who quotes Russ [Allbery] can be forgiven almost anything!'
>                                                   -- Stephen J. Turnbull

How about quoting both of 'em in one breath?


Peace.


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1.  ...at your own risk.  ObAshleighBrilliant.

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