Posted by Erwin Moller on 10/26/06 13:47

Steve Wright wrote:

> Cracked it!
>
> Because I have access to work from home over a VPN, the company have
> installed a firewall (Zone Alarm integrity client). This was blocking
> the cookies.
>
> As I am at work and behind the corporate firewall, I have shutdown my
> local firewall. IE6 now works.
>
> Interesting how IE6 was affected when the local firewall in in
> operation, but Firefox wasn't.
>
> Thanks for the help

Hi Steve,

Glad you solved it, but check as 'readme' said why FF is working without
cookiefiltering.

I do not understand: why would a firewall filter cookies out?
Cookies are a normal part of a http-request.
What kind of 'security improvement' does that offer?
I don't get it.

Does the firewall also check the HTML for undesired text?
Does it add missing </td>'s?

Seriously, can anybody explain to me why a firewall filters cookies?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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