From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 2:32: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB538151C7 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 02:32:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id MAA24869 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:31:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10Sdpa-000WyZC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:32:10 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Chuck is cute Date: 1 Apr 1999 11:32:07 +0200 Message-ID: <7dveen$737$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7drke8$lmn$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <7142.922948035@zippy.cdrom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard 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. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de LinuxTag '99 - 26./27. Juni, Uni Kaiserslautern - http://www.linuxtag.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message