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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