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reply to Anon

Re: Something I don't understand about WebWasher

Ok - I set my neutral to expire after finishing the browser session, and when I checked cookies for ebay.com at every page I went to (through CookieSpy, and I refresh the view of that folder each time by going to a different folder than coming back to the folder these cookies go into).

What I found was this:

As long as I stayed in the http portion of the site, NO COOKIE was set on my machine.

I signed out and resigned in (checking at each step along the way for a cookie from ebay.com) via https and low and behold the cookie with a 5 year expiration date appears on my system!!! So, with neutrals set to expire with the browser session, WW didn't keep out cookie from the https page !! ?? !!

I went to »www.paypal.com - did nothing, no cookie

went to »www.paypal.com - did nothing, cookie set and expires in 30 years. (I deleted it)

When I tried to repeat it with the https and paypal, it didn't set a cookie. (But it did that first time - which I promptly deleted.)

When I signed into PayPal, which is through the https, and is www.paypal.com, I get a cookie now which expires in 6 months.

more confused . . . .

reply to Zhen-Xjell
Ok Zhen,

Think I am narrowing this down a little - I went to costco.com - on my BAD list. No cookie set at the usual

http ://costco.com (had to put a space in there for the url to show up correctly?)

BUT when I went to

»costco.com

I got a cookie set that expires in 34 years!!

hmmmm

reply to Zhen-Xjell
Zhen same thing happened with sears.com

go to http and no cookie.

go to https and you get a cookie - this one for 24 years.

Not good . . . . .

reply to Anon
I just tried, first setting the url filter to »www.paypal.com. Two cookies were set. I deleted them, then tried again with the filter set to *.paypal.com, went to htts://www.paypal.com, and this time, no cookies were set at all.
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we were just souless, bloodsucking demons-they're lawyers...

I am still learning how to use WW - so I should do a "*" in front of it?? hmmmm I'll go try that now!

Well - I still get the 6mth cookie when I log in at the https www.paypal.com and the cookie is from paypal.com, not www.paypal.com

I put a "*" in front of both too in their respective entries in the WW filter list.
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Here is a site to help you Setup and use WW. »www.pacificnet.net/%7Ebbruce/workshop.htm

thanks for the link.
Do you guys have trouble with opening pop up windows when WW is not set to block them?»www.bhmotorsports.com/
That site uses pop ups for everything and with WW on I can't get any pop up at all.

Update never mind when I open WW first all is OK:)
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reply to Vampirefo
Thank you vampirefo for the link - I had meant to get back there for a while now.

I didn't find anything to help me with this except that they have found that cookies from about.com can't be blocked by WW.