>>Does your firewall remove your browser's
"user-agent" header?
>>-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
After much tweaking of settings
with Norton's and Windows XP
firewalls I was able to gain access
to wikipedia sites... it seems my
computer has been the target of
buffer overflow attacks according
to the logs, which were blocked
by Norton's Firewall... the program
went on the defense sutting down
privacy/information access... From
Brion's explanation of cookies with
Safari I figured I'd take a look at
the cookies settings in Norton's and
sure enough it was denying cookies...
I set it back to eating these forbidden
treats and it seems now to access the
wikipedia ok... (And eventhough I
use XP at home, mostly, I also have
a Linux-Mandrake box I use from
time to time, I do use Safari at
work, on an iMac with OS X, one of
the 8 computers in my classroom, I
will pass on the message about insecure
cookies to the other teachers who also
use it at the three schools I work in,
they're Mac inundated, although most
of them are older iMacs using OS 9,
the newer eMacs all come with OS X).
Ok, enough of my jubilant chat for now,
thanks Brion for the suggestions, and
for the patience of those on Wikitech-l.
Cheers!
Jay B.