finally got a hold of alex's machine, and was able to diagnose the cookie problem. This was the strangest most esoteric problem I've ever encountered (not the most difficult, but the strangest.) I'm sure nobody cares, but it had to do with designating a home page to automatically start up with when you open Navigator. The page was specified digitalmediatree.com (which of course works, because the browsers are smart enough to guess at the real address http://www.digitalmediatree.com.) Anyway, the cookie is sent to .digitalmediatree.com so that it will go to any page in the digitalmediatree domain (i.e., this.digitalmediatree.com or that.digitalmediatree.com, but since it was just digitalmediatree.com and not ...www.digitalmediatree.com, it couldn't find a .digitalmediatree. anywhere, and so it wouldn't take the cookie. Phew! These things can be so picky. Don't ask me how I found the cause, I'm not really sure. But now you know. Specifiy the whole address (http://...) when setting up preferences in your browser if you want to escape strange cookie problems.
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- jim 1-26-2000 6:15 pm