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On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:03, Dale wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm hoping someone can explain this to me and maybe even offer a |
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> workaround. This may only apply to us U.S. folks. Banks and credit |
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> card company are in the process of changing the way you log into a |
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> website. It "registers" your computer when you sign up as a security |
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> "feature". Problem is, this doesn't work with Linux and I suspect it |
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> doesn't work on a Mac either. I'm not sure, nor can I find out, what it |
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> uses to "register" my computer. It may be a CPU serial number or |
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> something like that. |
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Nah, I don't think they are that sophisticated. Your link seems to work fine |
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in Opera and Firefox, but does not work in Konqueror. I am talking about |
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accepting all cookies here, because it is cookies and IP address that they |
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use to identify your computer. |
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> I also don't know if this is Linux or the web browser, I use Seamonkey. |
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> I plan to test a theory at my brothers that uses winders XP and |
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> Seamonkey to see if it works up there. |
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I think that it may have something to do with the way you have configured your |
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cookies. Invariably they need you to accept 'referrer logging' and third |
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party cookies. This is because they most often than not use a different |
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server to log who the users are. |
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> Any ideas?? Am I cooked? |
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I don't think that you are cooked, but it seems that you will need to change |
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your cookie policy on the browser in question. |
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PS. The more stupid of the banks also discriminate against anything other than |
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MSIE. This can in most cases be bypassed by setting your browser to be |
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identified as IE (it returns the appropriate headers to the server once you |
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set it up to do so). |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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