- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:02:44 -0800
- To: "'David W. Morris'" <dwm@xpasc.com>, http working group <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
This is an absolutely excellent idea. I think it will go a long way towards making content providers feel more comfortable about the cookie spec. Yaron > -----Original Message----- > From: David W. Morris [SMTP:dwm@xpasc.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 1:03 AM > To: http working group > Subject: Should server beable to say NoCookie, No Show? > > > It seems to me that there are many applications which will break (in > the > sense of delivering confusing error messages, garbage, etc to the > user) if > a cookie isn't accepted by the UA and returned with the request > resulting > from a submit of the page which carried the set-cookie2. > > Symetry would suggest that since we encourage/allow a UA to discard a > cookie under the user's discretion, we should have an optional > attribute > which allows the server to stipulate one of the following: > > a. Dont show the page if the user rejects the cookie > b. Warn the user that if the cookie isn't accepted, the application > won't operate correctly (this is almost covered by the > comment/commentURL but its a different of message I think. Like > Windows allows a message box to be one of several types to > reflect > the content, the significance of the comment to the user would > vary depending on the damage to the user's experience by > rejecting the cookie. > > > Dave Morris
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