Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:42:18 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Chuck is cute Message-ID: <19990401114218.D7096@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <7dveen$737$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>; from Christian Weisgerber on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:32:07AM %2B0200 References: <7drke8$lmn$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <7142.922948035@zippy.cdrom.com> <7dveen$737$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:32:07AM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote: > > > I think this whole paranoia about cookies really goes a bit far. > > Possibly. However, a whole lot of sites throw out cookies for every > document served, and I certainly don't feel in control of thousands of > cookies. I can't be bothered to change browser settings site by site. > There's a basic rule about web technology: if it can be abused, it will > be abused. And probably in the majority of cases where it is used at > all. > > > I don't see how a shopping cart aplication can really work reasonably > > without them, > > Dynamic URLs. See Amazon.com for a working example. True, but amazon.com and amazon.co.uk also use cookies, and forget who I am when I turn them off... Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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