The Way the Cookies Crumble.

[Tesla Coil <tescoil@rtpro.net>]

In a letter to the July 1998 *Linux Journal* M. Leo Cooper suggested
this "most elegant method" of dealing with sites that make cookie
acceptance a condition of access:
ln -s ~/.netscape/cookies /dev/null

My diabolical laughter was interrupted by return of the message:
ln: /dev/null: file exists

Would somebody explain this?

Note to anyone who might imagine an alternate "elegant method"
to be found in changing permissions on the "cookies" file to 0200.
Netscape reverts the file to 0600 upon browser startup.


















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