From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-10-15T11:05:02+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI sessions without cookies?

On Tuesday, 15 October 2002 at  6:29:41 +0900, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * Stefan Scholl (stefan.scholl@brave.de) wrote:
> 
> > Some people don't accept cookies. And it's good style to avoid the use
> > of cookies.
> 
> Uhm, if the user has disabled cookies, it's a good bet that they would
> rather not be tracked by you moving the data from the cookies to the
> URL.
> 
> It's good style to keep your URL's clean and independent of underlying
> implementation details.  It's not good style to depend on session
> tracking in general usage.  It's perfectly reasonable to demand cookies
> be accepted to personalise a site.
> 

Uhm...you mean unlike Amazon?

-- 
Jim Freeze
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