Re: How to determine if a browser is cookie-enabled?

From: Bart S. (S._at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 05:56:01 -0700

Thanks Igor! I appreciate your help on this. I will try and get back with you to let you know how it went!

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> "Bart S." <Bart S.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7FA2C0B6-2A44-4FDD-84B1-05E8F600AFFB@microsoft.com
> > Well, after reading the spec you gave below, I can say I am not doing
> > cookies correctly... yet. So there is that. Plus, the link is a
> > direct link to a well know site. 'www.bestbuy.com' to be exact.
>
> Checking with the packet sniffer, that's what bestbuy.com does. When you
> go there with your cookie cache clean, it redirects to
> http://www.bestbuy.com/?i=2, and simultaneously sets a cookie
> "totality=true". If the browser is set to accept cookies, the redirected
> request sends the cookie to this new location. That page checks that the
> cookie is in place, and promptly redirects back to
> http://www.bestbuy.com/. This time, you have the cookie, so the main
> page is rendered successfully.
>
> If the browser is configured to disable cookies,
> http://www.bestbuy.com/?i=2 page is reached with no cookie set, in which
> case it produces that "Cookies disabled in your browser" warning page.
>
> This matches the scenario I described.
>
> > Now, since I am building the crawler in Java ( no hissing please due
> > to this being a Windows newsgroup :) ), the page wouldn't be
> > redirected as I haven't implemented any 'meta' redirects.
>
> Do you honor 302 HTTP responses? You won't get far on the Internet
> without them.
>
> > Under this
> > assumption, the first page is a 'cookie not enabled' page and I
> > believe it to be the standard page everyone receives.
>
> It's the second page, after following a redirect - the standard HTTP
> one, not a <meta refresh> one.
> --
> With best wishes,
> Igor Tandetnik
>
> "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
> and wrong." H.L. Mencken
>
>
>

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