Re: Enabeling cookies for hotmail passport

From: Austin Wise (PhaserHappyMonkey_at_Hotmail.com)
Date: 01/03/04


Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 23:54:03 -0800

The why:
Web sites like Hotmail use cookies to remember that you are logged on to
their web site. Without this you would have to authenticate on every page.
This is because the protocol used to get website (HTTP) is stateless. In
other words, it remembers nothing of past request.

The how (for Internet Explorer 6):
In internet explorer, click on the "Tools" menu and select "Internet
Options". Once there, select the "Privacy" tab. When you get there, you can
what actions your computer will take when a web site tries to give you
cookies. For Hotmail, pretty much anything except "Block All Cookies" and
"High", the top two selections, will work.

"Jen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:056d01c3d1c7$b0fec6d0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello. My computer is Windows XP. When I go to sign into
> my hotmail, a box comes up about saying how my computer
> must enable cookies, and it won't let me check my mail. I
> don't know what to do. Please help.



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