Yeah, most sites that return login cookies DON'T use the password as part of the cookie. What they return isn't gibberish- it's usually some kind of a tag that represents you as a unique user for that session. I've seen some that require you to post your username/password along with an ID for the cookie, too. Gave me fits trying to come up with a scheme to do that for Yahoo mail, ended up having to compromise with a Javascript applet (too complex to go into detail here).

I don't think I can post to this BBS without accepting cookies, because without the cookie, each page would assume I'm not logged in at all. I was only interested in making it easier for me to enter the BBS after having purged my cookies. I've already done that, of course, I just was looking for a way to get around one of the two clicks I now use to enter the BBS. Yes, that's the epitome of lazy. So sue me.

Good luck with your palm thing.

("Purging Cookies"? "Palm Thing"? What BBS is this anyway?)

Tony Fabris
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