On 11/22/2015 6:55 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > I'm trying to renew my vehicle registration with the Pennsylvania > Department of Motor Vehicles (PennDOT), but the site seems to be broken > in a way I can't figure out (I've done this for 10 years running and > it's never been a problem until now). And the gist of PennDOT's response > is, "it works on my machine, so it must be your fault and I refuse to help." > > I begin here: <http://www.dmv.pa.gov/>, which immediately redirects to > <http://www.dmv.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx/#.VlJ6xkT09Y4>. In the menu on > the left, I click "Renew Your Vehicle Registration," which ostensibly > points to > <http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/vehicle_services/vrlogin.jsp?navigation=true>, > but instead redirects me to an error page at > <http://www.dmv.pa.gov/pages/cookies.aspx#.VlJ7v0T09Y4>: > > "We Cannot Process Your Request. The service you have selected uses > non-persistent cookies. Your browser is not currently set up to allow > non-persistent cookies." > > Now, my default cookie policy is to accept only first-party session > cookies, but apparently they want me to accept third-party cookies > without time restriction. So I clear cache and cookies, set the prefs at > Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security | Cookies to > (•) Allow all cookies > (•) Accept cookies normally > and restart the browser. When I return, nothing has changed -- PennDOT > still says I'm not set up to accept their cookies. I check the Cookie > Manager, and I have two cookies from pa.gov and four from www.pa.dmv.gov > but none from any third-party site. > > So my questions are: > > 1) Has the webmaster miscoded his cookie-setting/reading routine, > causing it to fail? This doesn't happen with Internet Exploiter 11. > > 2) Could the webmaster be using a bad sniffer that rejects SM out of hand? > > 3) Is there an issue with SeaMonkey's processing of cookies, such that > it doesn't handle some cookies even though it says it will? > > Thanks. >
Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1 (x64) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.39 (NOTE: "Advertise Firefox compatibility" is disabled.) Cookies from domain only I tried the link <http://www.dmv.pa.gov/> and got <http://www.dmv.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx#.VlKDchmDmtB>. From there, I tried "Renew Your Vehicle Registration" at <http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/vehicle_services/vrlogin.jsp?navigation=true> and got "Online Vehicle Services Login" at <https://www.dot4.state.pa.us/vehicle_services/vrlogin.jsp#top?20151122220959395=20151122220959395>. I cannot go further because I live in California, which is where my cars are registered. Maybe you should try disabling "Advertise Firefox compatibility". -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
