Poison MS Cookies (was Re: [TriLUG] Re: Wachovia Online Banking)

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 22:45, Jon Carnes wrote:
> As a minor example of that, recently our web group at HAHT created some 
> applications that really have a hard time with non-MS clients.  The cookies 
> generated by these apps were killing everyone elses applications.  It was 
> easy to see what was going on, and I suggested some changes that would 
> easily fix the probelm, but the applicatoins they used could not accomodate 
> any changes.  
> 
> Mailman was the app that was causing me the most problem.  I had to go into 
> the code for Mailman and modify it by hand so that it would handle the 
> poison cookies left by the rotten MS centric applications.

Just out of curiosity, Jon, could you explain a little bit
more about what was messed up in the cookies, and what
in mailman didn't play well with them.  Were the cookies
actually out of spec, or was mailman out of spec?  Just 
curious.

Thanks,
Tanner
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