96373 - kburra.com - Kookaburra's Cookie Pal not compatible with Netscape 6.x

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[jrdepriest]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    20011080110

The Netscape 6.x stuff has advanced built-in cookie management facilities, but
I've been using Cookie Pal for over a year and am loathe to give it up.
I sent a message in to their tech support and this was the reply:
<quote>
Hi Jason, 

Netscape 6.x (and other Mozilla based browsers) is unsupported by Cookie Pal at
the current time. This is due to the fact that the Netscape browser no longer
uses standard alert windows when cookies are received and Cookie Pal is
currently unable to obtain cookie information from Netscape as cookies are
received. We are working on supporting Netscape 6.x by using some different,
more advanced techniques, but I do not have any information yet as to when this
will be available. New information will be posted on our web site at
http://www.kburra.com as it becomes available. 

Regards, 

Brenton Pattison 
Kookaburra Software 
http://www.kburra.com
</quote>
This message is more of an FYI that someone is already working on it at the
Kookaburra level than a request for someone on the Mozilla team to look into it.

Thank you!
-Jason

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and install the trial version of Cookie Pal from http://www.kburra.com.
2. Open up your Mozilla based browser.
3. When a cookie notice pops up, right-click on your Cookie Pal icon and ask it
to "Add Browser"
4. You will get an error.

Actual Results:  Error message:

Cookie Pal can not find a cookie alert message.

Expected Results:  Browser successfully added.

I am running Cookie Pal version 1.6c, but the issue would exist regardless of
what version I was running.

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Moving to Evangelism...

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Assigning to the reporter since he has contacted them.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

authors

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

[e-mail]: is This still an issue ?

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I'm not sure this is worth worrying about. Presumably there would have had to be a total rewrite when Gecko moved to Permissions.sqlite anyway, and I think this sort of functionality is probably adequately covered by extensions and built-in prefs these days.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Let's close this one. :) Sorry for the Netscape 6 users… ;)