Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:46:04 -0500 (EST) From: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Chuck is cute Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904011039200.26314-100000@sonic.digital-web.net> In-Reply-To: <7dveen$737$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
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On 1 Apr 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote: > > > I think this whole paranoia about cookies really goes a bit far. I would agree with the above. > > 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. In general I think I see whare you are coming from, but everything has it's limits as to what it can actually do. I think you'll find that many sites generate cookies for everything to make log reporting much more detailed and useful. Take a product like Web Trends ( the software is a pain, but it makes very nice reports ), it uses that info to provide very useful info, like: how many user sessions there were, how long they stayed, what path they took through the site, etc. If you are in the business/job of designing a web site that info is extremely useful. I don't want to start a battle over this, because you can always agrue against something, that's easy. > > > I don't see how a shopping cart aplication can really work reasonably > > without them, I would also tend to agree with this statement, after fighting with a co worker about different ways to deal with this, we always ended up coming back to cookies in way or another. > > 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 > Joseph Scott joseph@randomnetworks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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