Re: WebTV and cookies?
by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>
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Wed, 04 Jul 2001 11:09:37 -0400 |
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hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org |
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"Robert Clendaniel" <robert(at)baylogic.com> |
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Net4tv.com reports that cookies in WebTV 2.6, released early this year, no
longer work properly.
At 03:43 AM 07/04/01, you wrote:
>One of our client sites has a form which uses cookies to allow
>users to retain information between visits and not to have to
>retype in a bunch of stuff, as people typically use it every
>month.
>
>http://www.choptankelectric.com/bilmeter/mreading.html
>
>We've just heard from an unhappy visitor for whom the cookies
>aren't working; he uses WebTV and insists that our site's cookies
>worked OK until recently - no changes have been made to the page
>since before this.
>
>What are the issues WebTV has with cookies, if any? Any and all
>advice most welcome!
>
>FWIW, the form CGI we use here is "yform" but it's based on
>"formmail".
>
>Robert L. Clendaniel
>BayLogic Internet Marketing Inc.
>robert(at)baylogic.com
>http://www.baylogic.com/
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Chuck Upsdell
Email: cupsdell(at)istar.ca or cupsdell(at)torfree.net
Website: http://home.istar.ca/~cupsdell/
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