Macheath

I just went to make a few posts in an internet cafe, expecting to be able to log out and purge the cookies as I have done in the past on public terminals.

I tried that and my account wouldn't log out.

Is there any way for an admin to force an early expiration on the cookies generated from this IP address only; or will ALL my old cookies be disposed of? - I won't mind logging back in once I get home this evening - just as long as my home dialup address isn't accidentally barred for good.

The IP address listed for this specific post is from the public terminal, but I don't know if it's fixed.

hrdwareguy

The expiration time of a cookie is set when the page is visited. Changing the value now would do no good.

Lets say the next person to use that computer visits TFP, they would be using the cookie as you, then when they left, the new cookie would have an expiration time of whatever the new value would be.

In short, at least one person would be able to visit the site as you.

When using public machines, don't tell the site to remember you and don't let the machine save your password.

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