Re: Digest Authentication
| From: | Seairth Jacobs | Date: | Fri, 23 Aug 2002 06:19:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Digest Authentication | ||
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"Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org> wrote in message
news:3D65A202.4080608@acm.org...
> Hello,
>
> Cookies are not a bad thing. I don't know your reasons but it seems that
> some people have a sort of irrational alergy to cookies as if they
> contain a sort of disease.
There is a simple reason for avoiding cookies: users can (and do) reject
them. Therefore, they are not a reliable method of maintaining a session.
Sure, you can put a sign on the front door that says "cookies required", but
some people will actually choose not to enter (which I don't want).
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Seairth Jacobs
seairth@seairth.com