On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:59:31 +0100, John wrote: > On 15 Oct, John-Mark Bell <j...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote: > > You should have no .co.uk cookies at all. I strongly recommend that you > > delete them. By rights, NetSurf should never have accepted them in the > > first place. Unfortunately, this is yet another case where following any > > of the published specifications doesn't actually get you anywhere near > > reality. > > Having just looked at my cookies file, having deleted it the other day, I > see a number of .co.uk ones including > google.co.uk > amazon.co.uk > clasohlson.co.uk > tripadvisor.co.uk > webtrends.telegraph.co.uk > > it doesn't take much browsing for them to pile up, and co.uk seems to > figure quite prominently. Perhaps I have missed some setting somewhere?
John-Mark is referring to the cookies for .co.uk only. ie. ".co.uk" is the entire domain part. These cookies could be sent back to any domain which ends in ".co.uk" so are potentially hazardess. Chris
