- From: David W. Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:15:15 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Shel Kaphan wrote: > Fact: some people hate cookies. They keep telling their browsers not to > accept them. An alternative I proposed was that servers beable to stipulate that cookies are required for an application to function. I forget the details of what I suggested or the brief discussion thread. But one must ask why users hate cookies and wonder what UI and/or server and hence perhaps protocol support might change that situation. Larry Masinter recently 'suggested' that perhaps getting a better solution to state management warranted a new WG. If the UA vendors expected to provide a high percentage of the desk top UAs were interested, I believe there a number of avenues left untested in terms of providing better support from all perspectives for state management. As I recently noted in a post to the StateManagement sub-group list, it seems that the UA design point for cookies is to share then between all open browser windows. That really does make it hard to manage a session. Dave Morris
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