Cookies. It's so embarrassing

Jake'sGran

This has happened before but I can't remember what I did to put it right. I am no longer recognised by a few sites I use regularly. I don't think Microsoft give a clear explation how to put things right when they go wrong. I have been in Control Panel again and read what to do but then I need to find if a site is HTTP, HTTPS or someting else. Can you help?

fwor

So you're trying to add exceptions to allow specific sites to set cookies?

Most websites will use HTTP: for everything that does not require the extra security that HTTPS: provides.

You can tell with most browsers simply by looking at the address bar, and observing which of the two it's actually using (but confusingly the latest versions of Firefox hide the HTTP:// at the front, so if you don't see it starting with [url]HTTPS://,[/url] you can assume it's not secure)

sho_me_da_money

If the URL bar has a padlock symbol, it is likely to be HTTPS.

Yes most sites are HTTP but alot are moving towards the secure standard. My google searches are resolved via https.