Re: yahoo wants to save cookies at /

[Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com>]

Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:35:11PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
> | Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple fact 
> | that yahoo wants to dump some cookies at / (root) directory for which I have 
> | no permissions. Anybody experience this strange behaviour?
>
> What makes you think konqueror is trying to save data in /?
Maybe you are getting an error because you have cookies disabled? Go 
into settings -> configure konqueror; cookies. See if enable cookies is 
checked and if it is, make sure yahoo.com isn't set with a reject policy 
in the domain specific policy area.

I can see how this could be confusing if you didn't have the knowledge 
of how cookies work (which Derrick explains below) and you know that 
your filesystem root '/' is off limits to your user. Fortunatly the 
browser only writes into your home directory or possibly /tmp.

> If you're looking at the "Path" (as mozilla calls it) in the "Cookie
> Details" dialog, that has no relevance to your local file system.  It
> is the base path of URLs at that site for which the cookie will be
> returned.  For example, if I browse to http://mail.yahoo.com/ and the
> server requests setting a cookie with path "/", then when I browse to
> http://mail.yahoo.com/foo, the browser will supply the cookie back to
> the server because /foo is under /.
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
>  
--
Jacob