From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 31 22:31:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262A3155BC for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:31:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05430; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:01:29 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7142.922948035@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:01:28 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Chuck is cute Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, (Christian Weisgerber) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message