From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T18:44:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't login to Rubyforge, just says "cookies must be enabled"

On 02/03/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:58:24AM +0900, Samantha wrote:
> > I emailed with him a few times offlist... He's in Gentoo in the GNOME
> > Environment.  I thought of permission issues, so suggested that he run
> > firefox as root, but looks like he tried it and it didn't work.
> >
> > It definitely sounds like a system or network issue, though.
> >
> > Maybe something funky in the .mozilla folder underneath the
> > /home/username directory.
>
> He reported trying to connect via the links browser, which also did not
> work.  As such, it seems unlikely that it has anything to do with the
> operation of any of his browser applications.
>
>
> >
> > I'm not sure if all the Mozilla browsers like Seamonkey, Epiphany, and
> > Firefox use that directory or not.
>
> --
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> "A script is what you give the actors.  A program
> is what you give the audience." - Larry Wall
>
>

I posted a request on a local OSS mailing list (I'm in South Africa by
the way) asking if anyone is having the same issues and I got a reply
from a person having the same issue. I'm not sure if our beloved
Telkom (worst telco in the world) is doing something wonky with SSL
packets (they have a penchant for traffic shaping) but that doesn't
explain why other sites usin SSL works fine or why I am able to log in
at work (which is a large SA corporation).

Farrel