Can you get a cookie from a popup?

[kayofcircles]

I know that sounds like a silly question, but I had a Tiger Direct cookie when I was using the Cookie Manager the other day. I had gone that day to Hotmail, here, think that was the day I went to Google and found a file association tutorial for someone, checked Hotmail again, and got offline. Tiger Direct cookie on my list. There were several annoying popups that I closed at the file association website..so, hence the question. My husband likes Tiger Direct and spends time there, but he wasn't anywhere near my puter...and I don't think cookies can leap/crawl/slither from one puter to the next when they're not networked.

[Budfred]

Depending on your browser and browser settings, you can get a cookie from any number of sites without visiting them. If there is an ad for that company on another site, it can plant a cookie while you are not looking. I personally find TigerDirect to be one of the most irresponsible large internet vendors, so it wouldn't surprise me a bit that they would do that. You may want to have your hubby check them out at www.resellerratings.com

[kayofcircles]

Okay..thanks. That site ad thing is very possible..I tend to totally ignore ads on a website. Hotmail has ones I ignore, and that website I mentioned above was covered with them.

I will give your link to beloved..but think it's a "first love" thing with him and Tiger. When we were really "newbie", that's the place someone had told us about, and where my husband ordered his first "build" parts. He had problems..called Tiger Direct..and it turned out that the RAM wasn't seated properly. So, he associates them with his first build, and first "victory." :)

I, however, got totally turned off to them on one order that had a "free" magazine subscription. Tiger gave our credit card number to the magazine service. Couldn't believe they did that..and told them so! Got it straightened out, but have tried ever since to get my husband to order from newegg and several other "much better" part places...and sometimes am successful.

[mjc]

Any html page that is allowed to run scripts can set/read cookies. So if the popup calls a page as opposed to just an image then yes it can set a cookie.

[Paul Komski]

mjc Just awondering - (a) is a script absolutely necessary to call another page in this way and (b) how would that page then not be displayed - if you see what I mean. In fact I wonder if a simple redirect meta tag might substitute for a script and do the "trick" and thereby not be affected by any script permissions set by the user.

In other words can one get a SYN-ACK(cookie) response from the server when a "request for a page" is sent by a client "activating" a URI if not associated with any html to display; and could the client even accept such a cookie .

I'm not being provocative, I've always found this fairly hard to get to grips with.

kay The "file association site" sounds the likely culprit. Cookies are simple text files but include an internet address. If that domain matches the domain of origin then that is the usual procedure. There is nothing to stop sites attempting to set cookies with a different internet address; these are third party cookies and, in Opera for example, one can distinguish between blocking one or both types.