Since Ive got Automatic Secure Cookie Management enabled I cannot login on some sites. Whats happening?
Some web sites depend on very complicated domain interrelations and, while they handle sign on on a certain domain through a secure HTTPS channel, they need to propagate authentication across multiple domains which do not support HTTPS. NoScript tries its best to gracefully degrade in these situation which simply cannot be protected, but some sites are just too complex not to break and login fails. In this case, you’ve got two options: • If you’re in a hurry, disable Automatic Secure Cookie Management, clear your cookies (at least those for the site you’re trying to enter) from Firefox’s Options|Privacy|Cookies and retry logging in. It should just work. • If you’ve got a few minutes to investigate, • check your Tools|Error Console output for lines starting with “[NoScript HTTPS] AUTOMATIC SECURE on https://www.somewebsite.com”; • open NoScript Options|Advanced|HTTPS|Cookies and add “*.somewebsite.com” (without the quotes) to the Ignore unsafe cookies… list; • Close NoScript Options w
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