Further to my recent emails to the group I have done some experimenting
with Quanta.
If you are having problems paying online using Internet Explorer, then you
should check your security level. If your system is blocking a Paypal
cookie then you will get the error message.
I must say that I take a dim view of a major financial site that expects
you to have a low level of security on your machine.
That is a criticism of Paypal and not Quanta. Don't be put off! Paying
your subscription online is very simple,
Paying online will hopefully be especially useful for overseas members.
I had a similar experience with IE when trying to download QL software
updates from Jochen's website. As you suggest, lowering the security level
and IIRC enabling cookies allowed the process to work (it was Bruce who
suggested that to me at the time)
It doesn't do much for people's confidence in internet security when a
system is seemingly so secure that the only way to make it work is to make
it less secure. I know that anyone who knows about the internal workings of
these things will tell you it's just a simple case of this and that, but
users don't always know that. And as with this system, I'm pretty sure it
wasn't any fault of Jochen's site, althouth the site did want to place a
cookie on my computer that IE was blocking because I had opted for strict
security settings at the time.
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Dilwyn Jones
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