[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 17885] Shopping cart broken on a major outlet

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17885


timothy.c.bates at gmail.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                URL|http://www.morecomputers.com|http://www.morecomputers.com
                   |/extra.asp?pn=931342%2D1914 |/extra.asp?pn=931342-1914




------- Comment #6 from timothy.c.bates at gmail.com  2008-03-18 05:57 PDT -------
Turns out this happens only when security prefs are set to accept cookies ONLY
from sites that the user navigates too. If cookies are off, the site throws a
"turn cookies on" dialog. If cookies are on without restriction, the site
works, but this "off-site" cookie prohibition is not detected by the site.

(As the shopping system is on a different server, this blocks the cart)

What is broken, then, is not the behavior, but perhaps the failure to let the
user know that their preference is breaking the site and too allow an
exception: It would be nice to flag for the user that the app tried to set a
cookie, and give the option to allow it. 

One solution (for Safari, I guess, not webkit per-sé) would be to have a
setting "ask user about off-site cookies"). Another would be to put a little
icon in the tool bar flagging any override of site requests that have happened:
this would allow the user to go in, and set a site-specific deviation from the
general preference.


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