Re: A Rant and Question about cookies

> Today I was locked out of a site I've been using for almost a year > because they require cookies, they never required cookies in the past. > No cookies, no access. I know why cookies were developed and I > appreciate how they're being used these days. My question is this: Now > as I understand cookies, there can only be so many cookies in the cookie > jar...before other cookies are deleted or over-written. You can't have > an infinite number of cookies on your hard drive and with everyone > issuing cookies and some places now requiring cookies....doesn't it all > become a little self-defeating....cookies I mean. > > Or am I missing the concept of cookies and how they work. Cookies are best used in session mode. Session cookies are never written to disk and only exist for the duration of the session. In that mode they are extremely useful and I really wish they were treated differently from long-term cookies by the client browsers out there. -Rasmus