[Noisebridge-discuss] cookies on netbook can not be enabled

[Jonathan Lassoff]

Hrm -- if you've tried a few different browsers, and it's still a
problem, that's strange.

Any funny business on the network? No transparent proxies? TorBrowser? Privoxy?

Short of all that -- maybe use Firebug or Chromium Developer Tools to
start digging in and see if your browser has cookies cached, and if
it's actually sending them in HTTP requests.

If you're connecting to an unencrypted HTTP site, Wireshark could also
be a useful way to dig into the network and see what it's sending.
You should see a server send you "Set-Cookie: ...." headers, and your
browser should save that information and parrot it back in a "Cookie:
...." header in subsequent requests.

Cheers,
jof

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Frantisek Apfelbeck
<algoldor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I have a major issue with cookies at my netbook (running Ubuntu 12.04 on the
> variation of Asus eee pc - Indamixx). I need to edit 29c3 wiki page but when
> I try to log in it tells me that I have to enable the cookies first. I did
> so (all the types) in the Mozilla but the same response. I have installed
> the Google Chrome, did the same again no change still claiming that the
> cookies are not on. So I wonder if there is some quick check how to find if
> the wiki is OK (which I expect) and my netbook has another issue ...
>
> I suspect that some of the "infamous" FN keys can be on without me being
> able to find out which one is it but on the other hand this machine is
> misbehaving quite a lot (like getting frozen for 5 min when I just edit
> Google doc or check email without any other application running etc.). I
> installed the Linux by myself few months ago and did not really use it for
> any experimenting. I had more or less the same netbook with ubuntu 9.10 for
> two years and it was running just fine, way better than this baby.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated because I need to work, 29c3 is coming
> way to soon!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck
>
> biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker
>
>
> http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org
>
>
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