- From: Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:51:24 +0100 (BST)
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, koen@win.tue.nl
Koen Holtman wrote: > > >I recently started using the `show an alert before accepting a cookie' >option in NetScape 3.0, and found that many Apache servers on the net >wanted to send me a cookie. I asked a local Apache (1.0.3) server >operator why his server was trying to tag a cookie on me (which is >considered extremely rude by Dutch standards). He was not aware that >it did; he did not even know what a cookie was. > >Question: Does Apache send cookies in its default configuration? No, but it's long been known that people have mistakenly included the mod_cookies *optional* module thinking that it enables cookie support in Apache. It doesn't (you don't need a module to do it). What this module does is enable a site to log a user's click path through a site. People haven't bothered to check what the modules actually do, they make assumptions based on the names. The module has been renamed for the next release. -- Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com) http://www.imdb.com/ ... why wait for a clear night to see the stars?.
Received on Thursday, 26 September 1996 09:29:21 UTC