The infamous cookie monster struck again this morn as I tried to hit the 1K page to ask for early deposit of the 4 SWU for 08. I could log into .bomb & it correctly showed me as a 1K, but when I went to 1Konly, I was denied entry with an error message telling me I was not a 1K. Go figure.

A call to the ICC tech support revealed they could hit my 1Konly page with my login & password, so they gave me the famous fixall advice of "just delete all your cookies." UGH, I've done this 3x before on earlier glitches. I complained that this forces pain on me due to multiple other sites I use that have valid cookies & I would like to know the name of the offending UA cookie, so I could selectively delete it. This request for top secret info was a "too hard" for tech support as they only had the 1-size-fits-all fix of "delete all cookies."

She did offer to register my request for the 4 early SWU's, so mission partially accomplished .

I subsequently fixed my problem by downloading the freeware program "No more cookies" which can be found at http://www.nomorecookies.com/home.html
This program allows one easily to view and to delete cookies selectively. I chose to hang on to (aka authorize) the 15 or so critical cookies and to delete everything else. I rebooted & viola, problem solved & I am still good on my other key sites. Sweet fix.

Mods, note I know this is not a brand new discussion item, but I failed to find a better thread with a clear topic name to bump. If you see a better fit, be my guest....

Firefox has this functionality built-in.

--- you can browse cookies and selectively kill them off

Just delete the offending percistent cookies from mymileageplus.com and then you can access the 1K site.

This is a real Hack, but if you are savvy with JavaScript, you can probably write a few lines and enter them into your Address bar. This could even be bookmarked as "United Cookie Monster" .

Instead of entering http://united.com or whatever, you could try something like (all on 1 line):

javascript: var now = new Date().toGMTString(); var names=document.cookie.split("="); for (var i=0;i<names.length;i++) {if ((i%2)==0){document.cookie=names[i]+"=;expires="+now+";"}}

That will execute the script as part of the current page (need to have united.bomb open). The handy thing is this could be automated as a bookmark on your toolbar.

I haven't tested it or anything, bit if you know what you're doing you should be able to come up with something that works... Maybe they should add a "clear cookies" link on .bomb. But I guess if .bomb were written properly, you wouldn't need to come up with hacks as a workaround!

I am still trying to find a solution to .com remembering two accounts.
I manage Mrs. Grayland's account also and have to log out and close the browser before going to the other account because the cookie remembers the last account opened.

There was a separate address that worked and installed it's own cookie...thus I could use one address for each with no cookie conflict.
Does one still exist?

Yeah that one is a pain. Using IE for one and Firefox for the other will work, but will be very annoying. Not sure if you can do much about that one. I'm assuming that you are logging into (assuming Windoze) with the same account?

If using separate accounts, I'm pretty sure Firefox will keep cookies etc in your user/home directory.. well it does in Linux at least. You could always configure it to do it under Windoze if it isn't the default.

I manage multiple accounts, and I never have to close my browser after switching via logout/login. When I really have to have both accounts logged in at once (like when making reservations), I use Firefox for one and Safari for the other (similar to nermaljcat's suggestion).

Agreed... although letting the cookie time itself out does not work, actually hitting "logout" always works for me without a problem. I use Camino (a Mozilla variant, similar to Firefox). And as others have noted, I use multiple browsers if I really have to be logged in as two people simultaneously. I have to keep multiple browsers around anyway since I do web design...

Some great advice here. I've been an IE guy because it was easy. I assume united.com works as well (or not) under Firefox as IE. I too am plagued with the problems of going into Mrs Nzpilot's account following access to mine. I'll give it a try. Tks....

Tks, I'll know where to look next time....

[noticed the thread title, and my mind went in a different direction...]

They implemented a feature on united.com to allow selecting what kind of cookies they'll serve you in flight?

I posted this from my smartphone and it was too much trouble to post the links on this problem. The definitive thread on this problem is my post Workaround for when the 1K site says you are not a member I added the "nomorecookies" tool referenced by the OP. That tool is only for IE.
Others posts related to this are:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...om#post7838411
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...om#post8475667
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...om#post6460389
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...om#post6357724
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...om#post6449678

I had not idea the I had given info on this problem so much. The bomb programmers are just idiots. They have no concept of how to handle cookies properly.

I did not test your script either but it looks reasonable. The browser window would have to be mymileageplus.com as that is were the 1K site cookie problems are. The cookies are KID and ID.

Are these by chance chocolate chip cookies? Maybe they need to be baked a little longer Want to confuse your friends when giving chocolate chip cookies - add 1/2 c of crushed bran flakes to the mix before baking