- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:05:43 -0800
- To: Lou Montulli <montulli@mozilla.com>
- Cc: "M. Hedlund" <hedlund@best.com>, Beth Frank <efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Lou Montulli writes: ... > > Dave's proposal does nothing to solve the privacy issues that > cookies bring up. Does anyone else's? But it does significantly reduce the capibilities. > In fact, it reduces the capibilities such that it is nearly > unusable for large scale applications such as online shopping. I don't see how that is true. It looks pretty usable to me. Its main limitation is that you've got only one session with a given server per browser-window, and that actually may be a good limitation. > A simple session ID requires the server to hold all the state > information. This leads to the need for large database lookup's > That may be true, but it also isn't what Dave proposes. > and distributed database problems. Not necessarily. > :lou > -- > Lou Montulli http://www.netscape.com/people/montulli/ > Netscape Communications Corp. Shel Kaphan
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