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Date:      Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:01:28 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, (Christian Weisgerber) <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Subject:   Re: Chuck is cute
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990401160128.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <7142.922948035@zippy.cdrom.com>

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On 01-Apr-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>  I think this whole paranoia about cookies really goes a bit far.  I
>  don't see how a shopping cart aplication can really work reasonably
>  without them, unless Christian here would like to provide us with one
>  which doesn't and yet provides the same functionality. :)

Well, you can pass a 'cookie' around using CGI, but its a bit clunky, and prone
to a replay attack. So gee, which is the lesser of 2 evils? Bring on the
cookies!

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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