On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:26, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:37:27AM -0400, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 23:53, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:35:11PM -0400, Chuck Hast wrote:
>> >
>> >> I get the following error message from a jobs website I am trying to
>> >> access
>> >>
>> >> Unable to load site properly
>> >> Your current browser settings indicate that cookies are disabled.
>> >> Cookies are required to properly access our site. To enable cookies,
>> >> please refer to your browser's documentation for instructions.
>> >>
>> >> I have cookies setup, is this a site that is looking for I.e., I
>> have tried
>> >> FireFox, I have tried Konquerer, and Chrome, none of them will let me
>> >> get through, I get the above error from them all.
>> >>
>> >> Here is the page, they have changed things, I had registered with
>> >> them but they now asked me to re-register, when I try to do so I get
>> >> the above error.
>> >>
>> >> http://www.iapws.com/careers/Home.aspx
>> >>
>> >> I guess I am going to have to figure out how to run I.E as I suspect
>> >> that is the problem.
>> >
>> > No problem under Firefox 3.0.5, Debian unstable. I did not, of course,
>> > try to register or login.
>> >
>> > FWIW, I had this kind of problem long ago when I had cookies "partially"
>> > enabled. That is, when I accepted cookies conditionally (you look at
>> > them first, and decide whether to accept them or not). Apparently,
>> > whatever site I was visiting wanted cookie acceptance wide open, as I
>> > recall.
>> >
>> It does not happen until you try to register or login then you get the
>> screen. I have cookies enabled, it works on everything else, I figured
>> if anything was going to catch it, it would be the banking sites, as they
>> really use them, but on both bank sites it works just fine.
>>
>> You do have to attempt to register or login in order to get it.
>
> I just tried to login and got the error you cited. I shouldn't have
> gotten an error like that if I have no login on the system. So I'm
> inclined to believe that this error message is inaccurate; I suspect you
> get it when your email/password don't match what they have in their
> system (as in my case, where they have no record of me). Point is, I
> don't think cookies have anything to do with it. As someone who's
> written a lot of webpage code, I wouldn't even worry about cookies until
> I'd validated the user.
>
If you try to go to the register page you get the same thing. I thought
the same thing, until I tried to register again and got the same error.
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