Bug#400514: Problem with changing policy of cookies acceptance

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Mon Dec 21 13:00:54 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 08:28:37PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Alexis Papadopoulos (alexpapadopoulos at hotmail.com) wrote:
> > Subject: Problem with changing policy of cookies acceptance
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 2.0+dfsg-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >  this is a problem I have at least from firefox 1.5 and that hasn't
> >  been fixed on the new 2.0 version. There seems to be an inconsistency
> >  regarding the cookies exceptions.
> >  There was an option on firefox 1.5 to block cookies that have been
> >  manually removed by the user (I can't seem to find this option to
> >  Iceweasel, except in about:config, the option being apparently if I'm
> >  not mistaken "network.cookie.blockFutureCookies").
> >
> >  If I remove a cookie from www.site.com, adding www.site.com and
> >  clicking to allow or allow for session in the exceptions dialog
> >  changes the status but only until the dialog is closed. The only
> >  solution is to remove the exception rule, and do the whole process
> >  again.
> >
> >  This behaviour isn't normal. Either the status shouldn't be changed
> >  at all (although it's not the logical way to deal with this in my
> >  humble opinion) making it therefore clear that the entry has to be
> >  removed before, or the change should take effect.
> >
> >  Have a nice day,
> >  Alexis
> 
> I'm not quite sure I understand what the problem is. Could you explain
> it again? Is the problem perhaps fixed in iceweasel 3.0rc1 in
> experimental?

I'm not sure to understand either. Could you also check in iceweasel 3.0
from Lenny or 3.5 from squeeze ?

Cheers,

Mike





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