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#624 +filter {content-cookies} not working for about.com

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closed-works-for-me
nobody
5
2006-09-13
2006-04-16
No

I'm using Safari 2.0.3 on MacOS 10.4.6, and Privoxy 3.0.3.

To reproduce:

1) Delete all about.com cookies, restart Safari.
2) Verify that they're gone.
3) Visit http://www.about.com/
4) Note that a bunch of cookies showed up.
5) Quit and restart Safari.
6) The cookies are still there: they were not turned into session
cookies.

If I turn off JavaScript, then there are fewer cookies, and none of them
are saved across restarts, which suggests that this bug is in filter-
content-cookies, rather than in session-cookies-only.

This happens with many, many sites, but about.com is just the first
example I picked.

Final results for http://www.about.com/ --

-add-header
-block
-crunch-incoming-cookies
-crunch-outgoing-cookies
-deanimate-gifs
-downgrade-http-version
-fast-redirects
+filter {img-reorder}
+filter {webbugs}
+filter {jumping-windows}
+filter {ie-exploits}
+filter {content-cookies}
+filter {banners-by-link}
-handle-as-image
+hide-forwarded-for-headers
+hide-from-header {block}
+hide-referrer {forge}
-hide-user-agent
-kill-popups
-limit-connect
+prevent-compression
-send-vanilla-wafer
-send-wafer
+session-cookies-only
+set-image-blocker {pattern}

Discussion

  • Fabian Keil

    Fabian Keil - 2006-04-16

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    Can you reproduce this with a different browser?

    If I visit about.com with Firefox (JavaScript and cookies
    enabled)
    and Privoxy settings similar to yours, I get 14 cookies
    (5x about.com, 4x nytimes.com, 5x tacoda.net), but they
    all expire after the session ends.

    This being said, I believe the only way to block all
    JavaScript cookies
    is to disable JavaScript in the browser. It should be fairly
    easy
    to fool filter-content-cookies with eval and friends.

    It might be possible to improve filter-content-cookies's regex
    a little bit, but it will never work reliable enough to count
    on it.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    • status: open --> pending-works-for-me
     
  • SourceForge Robot

    • status: pending-works-for-me --> closed-works-for-me
     
  • SourceForge Robot

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    This Tracker item was closed automatically by the system. It was
    previously set to a Pending status, and the original submitter
    did not respond within 14 days (the time period specified by
    the administrator of this Tracker).

     

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