February 2008
3 posts
No cookies for Safari
Dear Apple,
I can’t believe you still haven’t fixed Safari to prevent it from erasing all my browser cookies at random intervals. Please, please, please fix this. It’s so annoying.
Internet Explorer does not support user names and... →
I made this discovery today, much to my chagrin. All common web browsers, including IE until recently, allowed a username and password directly in a URL to avoid the ugly HTTP authentication box in certain circumstances.
e.g. http://username:password@mywebsite.com/
Microsoft decided that this was a security risk and in one of its umpteen thousand security updates, disabled this behaviour in...
