At 12:19 PM 1/21/97 -0500, Gilles wrote: >At 03:05 PM 1/20/97 -0500, you wrote: >>Incidentally you can now tell when a web site is requesting a 'cookie' >>(taking down your address) if you have set up Netscape 3 to do this. I'm >>not sure about earlier versions. Very interesting to see how frequently >>this is required for access. Don't ask this Perpetual Newbie How? or How >>to get around it.. > > >Incidently I absolutely refuses any and all cookies. >A week ago, the current version of Apache, the best web server, was >suddenly removed after it became clear that cookies may represent a big >security hole. >Beware! > >* Gilles Frydman In my case I consider who is requesting the 'cookie.' as examples I'm prepared to take risks with the NYT and my 'On-Line Brokerage.' So far my <del> is coping. Ed PS - Liked what I saw at 'newind2' but was unable to access 'www.hon.ch/conduct.mtl' I wonder if we need something like this for our ML's >