Re: Error due to the "Automatic Mirror Select" function...
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Sat, 24 May 2003 15:56:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Error due to the "Automatic Mirror Select" function... | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.mirrors |
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On Sat, 24 May 2003, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> > > It would be nice if on the my.php page you could pick your preferred
> > > mirror in your country.
> >
> > Well, the question is if there is any limit currently in browsers for
> > number of cookies / sites? We already have a few (MYPHPNET, LAST_LANG,
> > COUNTRY and MAGIC_COOKIE), and more settings are going to come probably.
> > So is there any limit? In case there is, we need to encapsulate more
> > info the MYPHPNET, as I originally intended. But back then Derick
> > suggested that we should have one cookie for one setting. But that won't
> > work if there is a limit on cookies, and we would like to have more
> > settings.
>
> Why should it be one-cookie per setting? That doesn't make any sense to
> me. Ideally there should only be a single signed cookie and a set of
> access functions that everything would use to get the right info out of
> it. Derick is smoking something.
I must have been drinking too as I can't remember that I suggested it :)
But AFAIK there *is* a limit of 20 cookies per site.
Derick
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