viewing blocked cookies

[Guest]

I Have hundred of blocked cookies that I now can not see or edit. Cookie
viewer programs have only allowed me to view ALLOWED cookies.

When I go to IE Properties> Privacy> Sites> down to managed cookies, I can
only scroll down to the letter "E" It does not allow me to view or edit
beyond that. WHY?

Is there a folder where all blocked and allowe cookies are. I have looked
in Temp ie folder, there is only allowed cookies there.

Is there a registry edit to aloow more to be viewd?

 

[Vanguard]

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I Have hundred of blocked cookies that I now can not see or edit.
Cookie
viewer programs have only allowed me to view ALLOWED cookies.

When I go to IE Properties> Privacy> Sites> down to managed cookies, I
can
only scroll down to the letter "E" It does not allow me to view or
edit
beyond that. WHY?

Um, because there were, well, BLOCKED. What did you think "block"
meant? If I block all people over the height of 5 feet through my only
door in the house then do you really expect to find anyone over 5-foot
high in my house? No, they were BLOCKED. Blocked means blocked. Those
cookies were NEVER created because they were BLOCKED. You cannot view
something that does not exist.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

In the Sites dialogue, click once on the "Setting" column. Do you now see
blocked cookies at the top? Click once again. What do you now see?

 

[Guest]

If the program list blocked cookies, then there is a file some where of ALL
those blocked cookies. How then would it remeber to block them. Since there
is a list of them on my computer, that is different than the blocked ones on
yours. Ergo, I have a file or registry that contains them. My question,
where is it, how can I edit it?

 

[dobey]

If the program list blocked cookies, then there is a file some where of
ALL
those blocked cookies. How then would it remeber to block them. Since
there
is a list of them on my computer, that is different than the blocked ones
on
yours. Ergo, I have a file or registry that contains them. My question,
where is it, how can I edit it?

It blocks them by site. So it doesn't allow them on your PC since you have
instructed your web browser not to.

The cookies are not downloaded then blocked, that would be a waste of
bandwidth. Whenever the site offers a cookie, it is refused, ERGO, they do
not exist on your HDD in the first place.

There may be a list of the cookies that have been refused, but that would
just be the file names.
The list of names would be generated *after* the cookie has been offered and
refused, so there is no list of pre-denied cookies, the list is generated
when the site you specified offers either one or twenty cookies.

Why ask a question if you refuse to accept the answer.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

The OP has to be talking about the list of Allowed and Blocked cookies in
Internet Options>Privacy tab>Sites.

 

[Vanguard]

in message

If the program list blocked cookies, then there is a file some where
of ALL
those blocked cookies. How then would it remeber to block them.
Since there
is a list of them on my computer, that is different than the blocked
ones on
yours. Ergo, I have a file or registry that contains them. My
question,
where is it, how can I edit it?

Depends entirely on HOW you are blocking cookies. Usually cookies are
blocked by what type of cookie they are. You can configure IE to block
all cookies so obviously no list is required. All is all regardless of
what site tried to create one. If you allowed 1st party cookies but
block 3rd party cookies then a site that tries to write a cookie that
specifies a different domain can read it (cookies can only be read by
the domain it was created for) then no list is required. If you add
sites the Allowed list then cookies from those sites are allowed. No
list is needed of the cookies that were allowed from those sites, just
the list of sites from which you are allowing them to save cookies.
Similarly there is a Blocked list of domains you specify that can never
create cookies on your host, and you don't need a list of their cookies
but just the domains you blocked.

Internet Options -> Privacy
Advanced (to configure cookie handling in general)
Sites (to see the Allow and Block lists)

 

[Guest]

NO. As I stated in the orginal posting. If I click on settings, it only
allowes me to scroll down to "C". If I click on domain it lets me get to "E"


Nobody has answered my problem. I would have though that MS people would
know. People keep saying that no cookie exist on my computer since I have
it blocked. I Know that. I want to edit/view the BLOCKED list on MY
COMPUTER. It has nothing to do with seesion cookies, that is OFF. I have
ALL cookies set to PROMPT.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Sorry. I found the list and thought I'd posted it last time...

In the Registry, each item in the Blocked/Allowed list is a sub-key of this
Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\P3P\History

If the default Value is DWORD 5, the site is blocked. If it's 1, the site is
allowed. Unfortunately, I don't know what's caused your Sites dialogue to
behave as it is, but I'd try Exporting the entire Key listed above, then
delete it and then recreate just the key above, without all the sub-Keys.
(Create a new key under ...\P3P\ called History.) That should blank the
entire list. Then test the list. Just go to a bunch of sites and accept or
deny cookies as you desire until you have a decent list. Make sure it
includes sites from all parts of the alphabet. See if it behaves now. If it
works, try restoring the Exported list by Merging the REG file you saved
when you exported the list. If it still works, fine. Otherwise, you'll have
to leave it alone and rebuild the list as you go to the sites, or slowly
test each individual sub-Key, exporting and then deleting each one, testing,
and then restoring it if the list still behaves OK. My *guess* is that one
of these sub-Keys is corrupt.

If your test shows the dialogue is still misbehaving after first clearing
the Registry keys and then testing, then IE probably needs Repair. What
version of IE do you have? 6.1 or 7?

 

[Guest]

We attempted everything you have lisdted in you're previous message. However
it did not solve the problem i had explained. We Deleted all of the registry
keys Under P3P/History and then we re-ran the "Advanced WindowsCare V2
Personal". It then Re-installed the 27,000+ Blocked Cookies. Once again it
only allowed us to view down to the letter C. I also have I.E. v 7.0 Any
other Troubleshooting Suggestions that you may have i am willing to try
anything.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

I'm not familiar with the app you cite, but I'm guessing that Windows is
choking on that many sites. At least, yours is.

 

[Vanguard]

NO. As I stated in the orginal posting. If I click on settings, it
only
allowes me to scroll down to "C". If I click on domain it lets me get
to "E"


Nobody has answered my problem. I would have though that MS people
would
know. People keep saying that no cookie exist on my computer since
I have
it blocked. I Know that. I want to edit/view the BLOCKED list on MY
COMPUTER. It has nothing to do with seesion cookies, that is OFF. I
have
ALL cookies set to PROMPT.

You were told how to look at the cookie configuration and Allow and
Blocked lists more than 6 hours ago by me and more than 12 hours ago by
Gary.

 

[Guest]

Vanguard

If you can read? All stated ideas have failed. As far as time, if the idea
fails, is time relevant?

 

[Vanguard]

in message

Vanguard

If you can read? All stated ideas have failed. As far as time, if
the idea
fails, is time relevant?

So don't accept what is and keep walking into a wall trying to find the
door that isn't there. You've been informed as to what IE has for
cookie management. There is no log of blocked cookies maintained by IE
other than those that just blocked for the page you are currently
viewing (click on the status bar section with the crossed-out eye icon).
You can only see what cookies that *just* got blocked for the current
page. Maybe that was what you were trying to find. There is no history
of what cookies that were blocked before. If you want such logging then
start Googling for cookie managers. Maybe one of those have the history
function you want that is not in IE.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

When you use Advanced cookie management, and you set either or both types
(first-party or third-party) to "Prompt", when you get a prompt to let a
cookie be set, you can choose the option to "Always" accept or deny cookies
from the site. The list of Blocked and Allowed cookies is found under a
button called Sites. That list of Blocked and Allowed cookies actually
resides in the Registry, as I previously described. Even without Advanced
cookie management, that list still exists and sites can be added via the
Registry. It is that list that the OP is referring to.