Re: Galeon 1.2.5 to 1.3.19 conveersion a couple of questions

Nix <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Karsten M. Self spake:
> on Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:27:49AM +0000, Nix ([email protected]) wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> > ...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?

Oh. I didn't notice that. Hmm.

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

Yeah, but some of us have persistent cookies for things like GNATS and
bugzilla which store more than passwords. It's not common, perhaps...

>> > 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.

Yes, but it's a good idea to use a resource that's intended to track
malicious URIs rather than one intended to track the sources of malicious
email: the two are almost entirely divergent these days.

>> -- 
>> `anybody who quotes Russ [Allbery] can be forgiven almost anything!'
>>                                                   -- Stephen J. Turnbull
> 
> How about quoting both of 'em in one breath?

Like that, you mean? :)

It could be worse: I could quote RMS and ESR in the same .sig, but I'd
not be responsible for the aftermath of the annihilation reaction.

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


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