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Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:12:44 PDT7
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Can't get there from here with Mozilla...?

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You are not alone!

It just recently started happening here in the wife's Win98 machine
with Moz 1.6 or 1.7 also.

Rats! A terrible annoyance!

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J. R. Fox writes:
> Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
>
>> When I try to go to E-Bay (via secure sign-in from my Bookmarks) with
>> Mozilla 1.7 I get this error message from E-Bay:
>> If you are seeing this page, your browser settings prevent you from
>> automatically redirecting to a new URL.
>> Please click here
>> <http://my.ebay.com:80/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&ssPageName=h%3Ah%3Amyebay%3AUS>
>> to continue.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what setting in Mozilla may be doing that?
>> This suddenly started to happen without my having changed any setting
>> that I can recall.
>
> Martin,
>
> I get that also, and my working hypothesis is that you must have Cookies
> enabled *before* you sign in, perhaps even at the time you first go to
> the sign-in page.
>
> I haven't gotten around to testing this idea, because my personal default
> is to have Cookies disabled. By the time I remember to turn them back on,
> for the time being, it is too late, as that "can't redirect" page has
> kicked in, and the only thing to do from there is to click on the
> "if you didn't go there automatically . . . " link. My strong hunch is
> that if I remembered to Enable Cookies _before_ reaching a 'Sign In'
> situation, this would not even come up.
>
> Next, you're going to shoot down my theory by telling me
> that *your* default is to have Cookies ON all the time . . . .
>
> Jordan
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