- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:27:25 +0100 (MET)
- To: m.koster@webcrawler.com (Martijn Koster)
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, ruby@name.net, jeremey@veriweb.com, www-talk@w3.org
Martijn Koster: > >At 9:38 AM +0100 2/7/97, Koen Holtman wrote: > >>Servers have no business sharing information without the user's consent, and >>I therefore see not reason why sharing information in a sneaky way should be >>particularly cheap or easy. If they want to share, let them embed the info >>in a link where the user can see it. > >Oh come on -- I thought we had moved beyond that one. That screws up caching, >bookmarking, indexing etc etc. > >Saying "Servers have no business sharing information" is too easy -- But then again, I did not say that. Note the qualifier "without the user's consent". I would have no problem with excite.com having a link `go to webcrawler.com and take your excite preferences with you'. I would gladly use such a link. And a preferences-in-the-webcrawler-URL scheme would not need to screw up caching, bookmarking, etc etc at all: simply have webcrawler copy the preferences back to a cookie and redirect to a plain URL: [following the `go to...' link on excite.com leads to:] | V GET /import-prefs/textonly&wacky HTTP/1.0 Host: www.webcrawler.com Referer: http://www.excite.com/blah | V HTTP/1.0 302 See other Set-Cookie: prefs=textonly&wacky;path=/ Location: http://www.webcrawler.com/ | V GET / HTTP/1.0 Host: www.webcrawler.com Cookie: prefs=textonly&wacky See? The only thing you need is a user deciding to click the link. >-- Martijn Koen.
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