On Fri, 17 May 2002 02:17:51 +0200, Lutz-Peter Hooge wrote:
> In article <pan### [at] moravia-itcom>, 
> ger### [at] moravia-itcom says...
> 
>> With the current Mozilla I can't even access the http news interface.
>> 
>> The "Enter the newsgroups" button simply doesn't do a thing...
> 
> Oh, it does. It tries to set a cookie, but fails since you disabled it, 
> than tries to read it, fails, and redirects you back on the "Enter the 
> Newsgroups" page... (at least thats what I think it does)
> 
> This is not a problem with Mozilla, but with cookies.
> 
> To the creators of the web-interface: Why is this config-page necessary 
> anyway?
> IMO it should just display the newsgroups with the default settings if it 
> doesn't find a cookie and have just an OPTIONAL link somewhere to the 
> config-page.
> 
> xpost & f'up2 povray.general

I've been unable to access the web interface over the last couple of days,
as it happens I've also been working on a CGI scrpt that uses cookies and
I can confirm that cookies seem to be working properly in Mozilla, but the
POV news web interface isn't. 

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