launch new browser without parent's cookies

[Scott]

I wish to have a link on a page that launches a new browser before it
loads the target link. The standard _new and _blank include the parent
browser's cookies. Is there an alternative method that excludes these
cookies?

Thanks in advance

[David Dorward]

Scott wrote:

I wish to have a link on a page that launches a new browser before it
loads the target link.
Eugh
The standard _new and _blank include the parent
browser's cookies.
_new is not standard, it is forbidden by spec.
Is there an alternative method that excludes these
cookies?

Cookies are sent with every request to a domain until they expire. I
don't believe there is any way around it. (Although you could use a
query string that the server side enviroment interprets as "Ignore
Cookies").

[David E. Ross]

Scott wrote:

I wish to have a link on a page that launches a new browser before it
loads the target link. The standard _new and _blank include the parent
browser's cookies. Is there an alternative method that excludes these
cookies?

Thanks in advance

With Mozilla-type browsers (e.g., Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino), the
cookie.txt file is specific to the browser, not to the window. The
session cookies are specific to the browser executable, again not to the
window.

When a link forces a new window, a new browser is NOT launched. Only a
new window instance of the browser is launched.

Further, the Mozilla-type browsers now have a feature in which the user
can force the current window to be used, overriding your attempt to
launch a new window. Since these browsers have tabbed browsing (as does
Opera), the user has three choices when you try to launch a new window:
open the link in the current tab of the current window, open the link in
a new tab in the current window, or launch a new window for opening the
link. Whichever option is used, only one browser executable is involved.

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[Richard Gration]

On Mon, 08 May 2006 01:15:00 -0700, Scott wrote:

I wish to have a link on a page that launches a new browser before it
loads the target link. The standard _new and _blank include the parent
browser's cookies. Is there an alternative method that excludes these
cookies?

Thanks in advance

Cookies have a path associated with them. You may, by careful arrangement
of your files, arrange to have the cookie(s) returned how you wish. If you
place all the files/scripts which require cookies in, say, a 'cookie'
subdirectory and then send all cookies with the path set to '/cookie'
(instead of the default '/' which causes cookies to be returned for all
requests to your site) then the cookies will only be returned when the
path matches the request (I believe the cookie will be returned for all
requests that *start* with '/cookie', in this example).

HTH
Rich