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Title: Can anyone confirm this?
Post by: hpguru on May 19, 2002, 08:29:33 AM

I just noticed something rather odd while browsing my IE Cookies folder with Windows Explorer. The right-hand side of Explorers status bar indicates that the Cookies folder is in the Restricted Zone. I checked my Restricted sites list but I failed to find any reference to this folder. I checked my daughters PC (Win98/IE6 - no patches) but her cookies folder is in the My Computer Zone as one would expect. Any ideas?

 

Title: Can anyone confirm this?
Post by: Jor on May 19, 2002, 02:49:27 PM

On my system (XP Professional) the Cookies folder is also in the Restricted Zone, while that zone has no entries at all.

No idea as to the reason why.

Forgot to add: I do not use MSIE for anything but the occasional moronic website I *have* to access which does not work in Opera, and Windowsupdate.

My cookies folder is cleaned with a Windows NT Command Script during boot, always, and therefore is empty.


Edited by - Jor on 19 May 2002  15:50:59

Title: Can anyone confirm this?
Post by: hpguru on May 19, 2002, 05:28:07 PM

I created a new account and checked its Cookies folder. It was in the Restricted Zone too so that rules out any reg hack I applied. I'm thinking it is a feature of one of the security patches I installed.

I could be wrong but it seems to me that the most obvious effect this produces is to prevent scripts embedded in cookies from being executed. If that's the case it's not a very good fix if you ask me. They should rewrite the DOM to prevent illegal scripts from running.

Yeah I see what you're saying, but hey! Opera is a wonderful browser that is being continually improved. I'm sure some day it will be able to render moronic sites just as skillfully as it renders ordinary sites. O>