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Mick wrote: |
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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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OK. This is a start in the right direction. I checked on my cookie |
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settings and here is what I have it set too in Seamonkey. Under "Cookie |
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Acceptance Policy" I have it set to "Allow All Cookies" which is as |
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allowable a policy as it has. Under "Cookie Retention Policy" I have it |
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set to "Accept Cookies Normally" which is the most allowable policy it |
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has. So you may could say I have it set to the least secure and wide |
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open setting there is. Keep in mind that all other sites store my login |
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information just fine. It is just this Passmark crap that doesn't work. |
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Any ideas on what I can change here? |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) :-) |
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