MS IE Cookie Management on 127.0.0.1

Deactivation of Cookies for 127.0.0.1 is not possible - or how?

[hakre]

Hi!

For a local development on my localhost (127.0.0.1) I wanted to deactivate cookies for that host in Internet Explorer 6 on XP.

First of all I used the Privacy Tab in Internet Options because since version 6 cookie handling is managed here instead of in the Security Tab until ver 5. I deactivated all cookies and even added 127.0.0.1 to the blocked sites in the advanced settings. But Voila: Cookie is still there and read out.

Anyone hast got any Idea? That smells like a Bug in IE in my opinion.

-hakre

[encyclo]

Definitely smells like a bug... Have you tried adding a fake domain name pointing to 127.0.0.1 to the hosts file, then calling up the local site with that domain name. eg. Add:

127.0.0.1 widgets.local

to hosts, then block cookies for widgets.local?

[hakre]

thanks for your hint. but this is getting more and more strange. first of all, i located the hosts file in:
c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\

only! thought it should be in %windir% or %systemdir%. i changed the content in \etc\ but all i put in is not recorgnized as a local domain at all. it's going all out over the default gateway and win32 tcpip tries to resolve it by a foreign DNS which does not work, cause the domain does not exists in the internet.

so can you give me a hint how to setup that kind of scenario on xp?

thanks a lot,
--hakre

(had no problem with hosts on win98 these days... ;))